Re: [link-relations] NEW RELATION - canonical

[Peter Saint-Andre <[e-mail]>]

On 4/15/11 12:29 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> On 15.04.2011 20:09, Frank Ellermann wrote:
>> Relation Name: canonical
>> Description:   A "canonical" URI is the preferred version of a set of
>> URIs
>>                 with highly similar content.  It is intended to help
>> search
>>                 engines when the same or highly similar similar
>> content is
>>                 available at different URIs.
>> Reference:     About rel="canonical"
>>                
>> http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139394
>> Notes:         In<http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/canonical-link-tag/>  and
>>                 <http://gregable.com/2009/02/relcanonical.html>  the
>> authors
>>                 state that Ask, Bing, Google, and Yahoo supported
>> canonical
>>                 URIs as of February, 2009.
> 
> Frank,
> 
> we do have people at Google looking into writing a "proper" spec --
> maybe you are willing to assist them, given your IETF know-how?

I'd be happy to sponsor the old spec if someone can volunteer to work on it:

http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-johnston-addressing-link-relations-01.txt

It is very short and quite complete, so I think it would be easy to move
this forward.

Peter

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