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Re: [Tools-discuss] Unicode decode error for RFCs

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Sun, 04 April 2021 16:14 UTC

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On 3 Apr 2021, at 20:41, Brian E Carpenter wrote:

> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9007 is OK.

Of course. If it didn't, I would have reported that as well.

> And the tools repository is going away anyway.

"going to" does not help current programs that generate URLs to the site 
that has worked for a very long time.

> Maybe the Twitterland needs to be told.

That will be as useful as telling them that they should all be using 
IPv6 addressing. I'm not saying you shouldn't try, but I am saying that 
us doing so absolves us from the responsibility to maintain the current 
infrastructure.

> https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9007.html is even more OK. I mean, 
> who cares about the htmlized versions of HTML RFCs?

Everyone with tools that generates URLs to them.

--Paul Hoffman

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