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Re: [link-relations] NEW RELATION REQUEST: canonical

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Wed, 08 December 2010 05:15 UTC

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Ed,

Embarrassingly, I've overlooked a pre-existing draft:
  http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-johnston-addressing-link-relations/

In our defense, it predated the registry being approved...

Perhaps you could work with Sam?

Regards,


On 15/11/2010, at 1:33 PM, Ed Summers wrote:

> Relation Name:
> canonical
> 
> Description:
> A canonical page is the preferred version of a set of pages with
> highly similar content.
> 
> Reference:
> http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394
> 
> Notes:
> This relation is used by web crawlers to prefer a particular URI when
> multiple URIs are available for similar content. For example, when a
> URL contains a tracking number or sort parameters.
> _______________________________________________
> link-relations mailing list
> link-relations@ietf.org
> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/link-relations

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