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Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Mon, 22 February 2021 08:15 UTC

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On 22. Feb 2021, at 08:35, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> Note that the recommendations are inconsistent, and that the first one
> (from the web site) adds a link to tools.ietf.org.

… which has served us well as a landing page for a draft.

People like that page a lot because it has the relevant metadata and links as well as the content of the draft.

(The equivalent data tracker page has more, but less useful and less usefully presented metadata, and it only has the first two pages of the draft, because it was *not* designed to serve as the landing page.)

We used to use the tools.ietf.org page as a landing page for citing RFCs as well (or the equivalent in https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7049.html).
We now have https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8949, which is a landing page, but less useful as it doesn’t have the content.
(And it still has a link to one PDF software vendor :eyeroll:.)
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8949 uses metadata.js to turn the original HTML into a basic, but useful landing page as well.

Grüße, Carsten

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