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

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Sun, 04 April 2021 18:36 UTC

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On 4 Apr 2021, at 10:55, Julian Reschke wrote:

> Am 04.04.2021 um 18:19 schrieb Carsten Bormann:
>> On 2021-04-04, at 18:14, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Everyone with tools that generates URLs to them.
>>
>> Cool URIs are stable [1].
>> Those URIs are not going away.
>> Google still prioritizes them.
>> Thousands of RFC, I-Ds, papers, articles, blog entries reference 
>> them.
>> (And the above tools still generate them.)
>>
>> I genuinely hate to say this, but at some point we’ll need to find 
>> a way to take control of what is behind these URIs.
>> ...
>
> True. Maybe just redirect?

That would be the easiest solution to implement and, at the same time, 
the most flexible for the future.

--Paul Hoffman

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