[ih] Archiving Internet history

[Brian E Carpenter]

On 17-Feb-23 12:19, Dave Crocker via Internet-history wrote:
> On 2/16/2023 3:11 PM, Jack Haverty via Internet-history wrote:
>> Whoever is in charge of the IETF discussion groups/lists, I assume
>> they're somehow being archived well,
> 
> Unless things have changed dramatically in recent years, they are not.
> 
> The difference between reliable operation, operational backups, and
> museum quality archiving was not something that resonated with the IETF,
> when it was discussed back then.  All that was being done then was the
> first 2.

In fact, a large number of IETF WG list archives from before the IETF
learned to host its own lists at ietf.org are lost.

Whether the IETF mail archive (https://mailarchive.ietf.org) is safely
archived, I don't know.

     Brian