Re: [rfc-i] IANA, too (Re: archiving outlinks in RFCs)

[tom petch <[e-mail]>]

On 28/04/2023 17:00, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> On 2023-04-28, at 17:35, tom petch <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>>> I think we also should look at targets for links used in IANA registries.
>>
>> Why?
>>
>> When I review and I-D, I always encourage the authors to insert a URL to the registry since the choice of name for the registry is sometimes, often, not chosen with ease of use in mind.  I see such URL in documents approved by the IESG.
>
> I wasn’t talking about links to IANA registries (which are also interesting, but more like under our control), but about the links in the registries.  All 6412 of them.
>
> http://standard.pictel.com/ftp/avc-site/0206_Bru/AVD-2198.zip
> http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/ethertype/eth.txt
> http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/cr_files/639-3_ChangeRequests_2011_Summary.pdf

Ah yes, I see what you mean now - I misunderstood.

Tom Petch


>
> The first one is now an empty HTML page.
> The second one now points to general information and no longer to the actual document, so it is not sufficient to check them from a bot (unless that alerts to major changes).
> Some of these, like the third, are amazingly still working!
> Obviously, I haven’t checked all of them.
>
> Grüße, Carsten
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