Re: [Tools-discuss] Alternate bibxml servers

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

On 2021-02-13, at 19:17, Michael Richardson <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> Signed PGP part
> 
> Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> (4) … and the link given there,
>> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ace-aif-00.txt, is 404
>> (that would need to be the archive/id link now).
> 
> Based upon the policy for IDs, and the lack of a redirect, and that, in my
> draft, I can't predict when you'll update your draft, I think that all such
> links in IDs need to point to archive/id by default.

… which I thought already was the case (with an https URL).
Apparently it is not with the datatracker-generated links.

Let’s try that with a superseded draft:

$ curl -s https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/bibxml3/draft-ietf-ace-aif-00/xml | tail -2
   <format type="TXT" target="https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ace-aif-00.txt" />
</reference>

Fine reference bibxml.
Let’s dereference the target in that:

$ curl -s https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ace-aif-00.txt | tail -2
<p>The document has moved <a href="https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-ace-aif-00.txt">here</a>.</p>
</body></html>

OK, thank you for the hint, let’s get *that*:

$ curl -I https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-ace-aif-00.txt
HTTP/2 404
[…]

Do I now have to pile on another emergency patch to fix the datatracker links?
🤦‍♂️.

> {That's too bad from a SEO point of view, but effectively the result
> is that google is never gonna pick www.ietf.org/internet-draft/foo.}

archive/id is the stable URL [1].  The temporary ones should never be used.

Grüße, Carsten

[1]: https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html
"Cool URIs don't change"