I-D's: announce-and-copy or copy-and-announce [Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-01.txt]

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>]

Hi,

There seems to be a process problem with announcing I-D's.  They are 
announced before they become available.  This happened with this 
one, and has happened in the past too (I guess the difference 
between these two events is not significant, though).

Shouldn't this be "copy first, then announce" ?

Thanks.

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 Internet-Drafts@ietf.org wrote:
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
> This draft is a work item of the IP Version 6 Working Group Working Group of the IETF.
> 
> 	Title		: Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses
> 	Author(s)	: R. Hinden, B. Haberman
> 	Filename	: draft-ietf-ipv6-unique-local-addr-01.txt
> 	Pages		: 15
> 	Date		: 2003-9-24
> 	
> This document defines an unicast address format that is globally
> unique and is intended for local communications, usually inside of a
> site.  They are not expected to be routable on the global Internet
> given current routing technology.
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