[ih] Saving IETF history

[Lars Eggert]

Hi,

On 2021-5-13, at 6:23, Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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> This isn't an IETF mailing list, but if it was, I'd suggest finding out what the IETF Secretariat plus the RFC Editor already archive. The RFC (+IEN) archive is certainly pretty solid. As far as I know, the I-D archive has been used many times in prior art searches, including litigation. Whether mailing list archives and meeting minutes have been used too, I don't know. Certainly, some list archives prior to ietf.org hosting the lists can be hard to find.

the IETF data has been the target for quite a bit of analysis by researchers in recent years, and there are scripts to grab a copy of (much of) the data, prior to analysis. See https://datactive.github.io/bigbang/

Thanks,
Lars

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