[ih] Archiving Internet history

[Jack Haverty]

IIRC, there are lots of mailing lists hosted by ISOC, e.g., for Working 
Groups, IETF issues, etc.   Although the contents of such lists are not 
yet "history", they will be someday.  One of the purposes of this 
internet-history list is to capture the fleeting memories of the people 
who were there in earlier times, and remember things that were 
unfortunately never archived, e.g., the discussions and debate on 
various early mailing lists, which held much that was never in any RFC.

I thought ISOC would attempt to preserve all of its current work and 
discussions for history' sake?

Jack


On 2/16/23 14:31, John Levine wrote:
> It appears that Jack Haverty via Internet-history <jack at 3kitty.org> said:
>> Isn't contacting libraries something that isoc should do?  I think it hosts other mailing lists that may also be of historical
>> interest related to the Internet and therefore worth archiving.
> ISOC only hosts this list because I was on the board and asked them to
> do it, and they agreed it seemed like a reasonable idea. They are not
> normally in the history business.
>
> While I agree that this list is worth archiving, I think somone who
> does archiving should do it, not yet another thing on ISOC's plate.
>
> R's,
> John