Missing Archives

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Craig and all,

Craig Simon wrote:

> Are tapes or useful records of those IAHC/IETF/BOF MBONE meetings accessible
> anywhere? I haven't been able to get my hands on Rick Wesson's minutes of the
> 1996 IETF meetings, so if anyone else has them, I'd appreciate it (I've
> checked the IETF proceedings site and emailed him more than once about it.)
>
> Last time I looked, the IAHC email archives were fully available at the
> gtld-mou site; that's not a problem.

  You are wrong on this point.  There are large sections of the IAHC-Discuss
E-Mail archives that are missing and have been for several months now.  This
has already been discussed and questions ask as to what happened to them, again
without any answers of course.  Robert Shaw was supposed to be in charge
of them at that time I believe.

> I also have what seems to be a full set
> of the IIIA newdom archives. Unfortunately, the AR newdom archives are
> shuffled and mostly gone. Does anyone have a backup?
>
> It's clear that there's been a great deal of argument over "openness" and
> record keeping in the history of this process. The IFWP folks should be
> clearly aware of the need to avoid repeating those past mistakes.
>
> yours,
>
> Craig Simon
>
> Karl Auerbach wrote:
> > Please take care not to make mistakes about history:  The IAHC meetings at
> > the IETF were on the MBone and, if memory serves, we had international
> > electronic participation.
>

Regards,--
Jeffrey A. Williams
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