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Re: [rfc-i] Broken relative links to I-Ds in RFCs

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Sun, 28 May 2023 02:06 UTC

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From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Sat, 27 May 2023 19:05:43 -0700
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Subject: Re: [rfc-i] Broken relative links to I-Ds in RFCs
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On Sat, May 27, 2023 at 7:01 PM Brian E Carpenter <
brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 28-May-23 13:45, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I've recently noticed that the links to I-Ds in RFCs on RFC-editor.org
> do not work proper
> >
> > For instance, here is RFC 8555 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8555 <
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8555>. It contains a link to
> draft-ietf-acme-caa-06. Here is the HTML:
> >
> > [<a id="ref-ACME-CAA">ACME-CAA</a>] Landau, H., "CAA Record Extensions
> for Account URI and ACME Method Binding", Work in Progress, <a
> href="./draft-ietf-acme-caa-06">draft-ietf-acme-</a><a
> href="./draft-ietf-acme-caa-06">caa-06</a>, January 2019.
> >
> > Unfortunately, there is nothing at:
> > https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/draft-ietf-acme-caa-06 <
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/draft-ietf-acme-caa-06>
> >
> > Spot-checking, this seems to be true for other ID references in this RFC
> and others.
>
> Oops, it looks as if the .html files at rfc-editor are exact copies of the
> htmlized versions at datatracker.ietf.org, where that form of relative
> URL works fine.
>

Unfortunately, this seems to be the version that both DDG and Google offer
(though Google actually shows tools.ietf.org first).

-Ekr

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