[ih] prior art, Why the six month draft expiration ?

[touch at strayalpha.com]

Hi, all,

I didn’t notice anyone mention the reason for 6-mos rather than not expiring - i.e., that the drafts expired to encourage “half-baked” ideas that didn’t follow the author around forever.

That nuance was lost when the IETF decided to archive the drafts, as of a particular date.

Although archiving drafts does help the serve to battle patents, it did undo the original intent of the drafts being ephemeral.

I’m not entirely sure that was a win.

Joe

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