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As Interledger's whitepaper is very out of date compared to the current spec, it may confuse or mislead people looking to learn more about Interledger. I think we should consider some of these options:

• Removing the link altogether from the "About" page, or explaining that it's outdated and only linked for historical purposes
• Excluding the paper with a robots.txt so it can't be directly found by Googling "Interledger paper"
• Updating the whitepaper with a note that it's outdated, or... (dare I say) updating the whitepaper with the ILPv4 architecture?

I like the third option. That's what we did with the Ripple (XRP Ledger) Consensus whitepaper. Just adding a red note to the top of the file indicating that it's not the latest thinking on the topic (and directing people to where they can learn the latest stuff) while leaving the rest of the paper intact for historical purposes is a good balance.

Of course, it would be best if there were an unambiguous alternative to send them to.

I like the third option too - update the whitepaper with a note that it's outdated.

FYI the files for the whitepaper can be found here: https://github.com/interledger/paper