Subject: If I-D's are only published for six months then what is the retention period on them?

From: "todd glassey" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:36:45 -0800

It seems that irrelevant of the IETF's commentary that it only publishes 
documents as 'active' for a period of six months that there is an inherent 
retention requirement which is probably closer to seven years than six 
months IMHO.

This is an issue we need to deal with especially since much of those works 
would be key in filings for patent's or other IP protection against those 
works, whether the IETF allowed them to be advanced to RFC status as well.

I suggest that a formal retention policy is needed and that we need to add 
this to the IPR WG's open issues.

Todd Glassey 

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