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Re: [Tools-discuss] BCP links to multiple RFCs broken (in inconsistent ways)

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Tue, 16 March 2021 21:27 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Tools-discuss] BCP links to multiple RFCs broken (in inconsistent ways)
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Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com> wrote:
    > Why doesn't the datatracker serve the .html file for the BCP from the RFC Editor?

That's a good question!

I think that aside from reducing duplication, it would also raise the SEO of
that copy, and I think that we want to point more to rfc-editor.org, where errata,
etc. are best available.

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