Re: [link-relations] NEW RELATION REQUEST

Makes sense to me.

As an aside, would an expired I-D work as an alternative copy?

EHL

> -----Original Message-----
> From: link-relations-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:link-relations-
> bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Mark Nottingham
> Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 11:23 PM
> To: Julian Reschke
> Cc: Ian Hickson; link-relations@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [link-relations] NEW RELATION REQUEST - pingback
> 
> There's some discussion currently going on about making updating the
> registries easier, with simplified procedures for corrections, updates, etc.
> 
> If/when that happens, I'm thinking that a reference to Ian's site (or similar)
> isn't problematic, as the main problem -- that it may become unavailable if
> something happens to Ian -- isn't such an issue.
> 
> Make sense?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> On 08/04/2011, at 4:53 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> 
> > On 11.08.2010 05:35, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> >> ...
> >> If you meet the "RFC or Open Standard" test, it's possible to register it.
> >>
> >> Note that publishing on the independent submission Informational RFC
> track isn't really "through the IETF process" -- it's at the discretion of the RFC
> Editor, which is a separate entity. See:
> >>   http://www.rfc-editor.org/indsubs.html
> >>   http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4846
> >>   http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5742
> >>
> >> While I can't say that it's necessarily a quick process, the amount of work
> involved (beyond draft formatting) is relatively low, and there are a few
> upsides, including:
> >>
> >> 1) RFCs are institutionally guaranteed not to change over time; you say
> that the spec is frozen, but there aren't checks or balances, nor conventions
> in place, to prevent future changes.
> >> 2) When you die and your Web site disappears, an RFC will have a better
> chance of persisting in an unambiguous state.
> >> ...
> >
> > Assuming we are ok with the content, but not with the *location* of the
> spec, there may be an easy way to fix this.
> >
> > For instance,
> >
> > - use
> <http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20090228033516/http://hixie.ch/specs/
> pingback/pingback> as reference, or
> >
> > - have Ian send the spec as attachment to the www-archive mailing list, and
> then link to the attachment in the mail archive.
> >
> > Best regards, Julian
> 
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