[Gendispatch] Re: url/web-trackers and IETF mailing lists

Jay Daley <exec-director@ietf.org> Thu, 26 June 2025 20:48 UTC

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I would add that there is a means to achieve this that does not require any changes to the archives, which is for the presentation layer of the mail archive to offer a link that replaces the target URL with the unwrapped version. (I’m sure there are lots of details that need to be resolved so this is not trivial).

> On 27 Jun 2025, at 06:38, Salz, Rich <rsalz=40akamai.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
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> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-richardson-no-trackers-in-archives/
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> I think this is a bad idea. I think the idea of the IETF doing any kind of modification to what gets put in its archives is the start of a very slippery slope. It is also very fragile. For example, suppose a corporation purchases a common URL shortener (bitly, tinyurl, etc) and decides to monetize it somehow. Do we go back and undo all those links? Would that even be possible?
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