[ih] Off topic: patents and public stewardship

[John Levine]

It appears that Bob Purvy via Internet-history <bpurvy at gmail.com> said:
>They *should* be freely available, but we'd also like them to be Prior Art

Internet Drafts *are* prior art.  Didn't you see Scott's note where he
said they've been used in patent cases?

R's,
John

PS:

> 4. A searchable directory should be maintained. Being searchable by Google
> and other search engines might be sufficient as a minimum.

Of course they're all in search engines.