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Thursday, January 15, 2004  

Guidelines to Authors of Internet-Drafts
http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-guidelines.txt

The IETF Secretariat has updated its procedures for processing expired Internet-Drafts. The updated procedures, which are presented below, can also be found in the document entitled "Guidelines to Authors of Internet-Drafts" . An Internet-Draft will expire exactly 185 days from the date that it is posted on the IETF Web site unless it is replaced by an updated version (in which case the clock will start all over again for the new version, and the old version will be removed from the Internet-Draft repositories), or unless it is under official review by the IESG (i.e., a request to publish it has been submitted). Specifically, when an Internet-Draft enters the "Publication Requested" state in the I-D Tracker, it will not be expired until its status is resolved (e.g., it is published as an RFC). I-D Tracker states not associated with a formal request to publish a document (e.g., "AD is Watching") will not prevent an Internet-Draft from expiring after 185 days.

Internet-Drafts will not expire during the period surrounding an IETF Meeting when submission of updates to Internet-Drafts is suspended (i.e., between the cutoff date for submission of updated drafts, which is two weeks prior to an IETF Meeting, and the date that Internet-Draft submissions are once again being accepted). All Internet-Drafts scheduled to expire during this period will expire on the day that the Secretariat reopens Internet-Draft submissions.

When an Internet-Draft expires, a "tombstone" file will be created that includes the filename and version number of the Internet-Draft that has expired. The filename of the tombstone file will be the same as that of the expired Internet-Draft with the version number increased by one. If a revised version of an expired Internet-Draft is submitted for posting, then the revised versionwill replace the tombstone file and will receive the same version number as that previously assigned to the tombstone file. Tombstone files will never expire and will always be available for reference unless they are replaced by updated versions of the subject Internet-Drafts.

posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:55 AM
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