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

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Thu, 17 February 2011 13:39 UTC

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On 17.02.2011 14:32, Ed Summers wrote:
> ...
> Julian, Mark would Sam's draft need to be an RFC before we could link
> to it from the registry? I guess a similar hosted at google.com would
> work as well?
> ...

 From IETF's point of view, IDs are volatile documents that disappear 
when they expire. So no, this wouldn't be sufficient.

Hosting a document at google.com should work if the URI looks stable.

Optimally, we'd just finish the Internet Draft and get it published...

Best regards, Julian