Hi,
Why, exactly? In Address-Policy, for example, many of the current policies go back to discussions we had years and years ago. So having more easily accessible archives of "old discussions" would help newcomers to understand better why things evolved the way they did...
If APWG feels there is a need to guide newcomers, APWG can write a FAQ or newcomers document themselves. This should be a working group activity.
I think this goes beyond WGs, Gert was just using that as an example. Who, for example, would curate the lir working group’s history? Or netnews?
To be honest I don't see a lot of value in this proposition. It already is part of RIPE NCC's duties to make the website and published documents usable and searchable. I'm not sure what an (opinionated?) historican really adds here.
I can see a use for curating historical information regarding the NCC and the RIPE community, but I’m also wary of adding headcount at the NCC to do it. Is this something, perhaps, that a team of volunteers (with suitable historical knowledge of the NCC and the community) could do as a task force? Cheers, Rob