Two comments --
1) In my experience URL's change from time to time (note the U in
URI means Uniform, not Universal).
Whether compuserve or geocities, hp.com or sun.com, companies
and domains come and go; private or commercial or academic. It
just happens. You know this. Web layouts come and go too: html
one day; asp another; then php.
There's no need to fear "rewriting history" just because a domain
changes or a URL gets reorganized by an IT department. Honestly,
how long do you think your own ucolick.org or ~sla will be around?
2) But based on your note, I cached the Torino proceedings here:
http://leapsecond.com/history/torino/
Still, please, when some day my web site or the LEAPSECS list
goes away, don't assume there's a conspiracy. It's more likely
that the ISP badly fumbled an upgrade, or I forgot to pay the bills,
or my estate has no clue what all these old files are.
/tvb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Allen" <[email protected]>
To: "Leap Second Discussion List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 6:49 PM
Subject: [LEAPSECS] rewriting history of Torino Colloquium
When the ITU-R held its colloquium in Torino in 2003 the Italian
institute was the IEN. Originally the proceedings were online at
http://www.ien.it/luc/cesio/itu/ITU.shtml
During subsequent reorganizations that became the INRIM. Until
recently they had continued to host the proceedings of the 2003
colloquium at this URL
http://www.inrim.it/luc/cesio/itu/ITU.shtml
I was recently informed that this link is now dead.
Much more to my surprise I find that there is no trace of it
in the Internet Archive's wayback machine.
Fortunately the wayback machine had crawled the original website,
and during at least some of the many crawls the content was available.
I suggest that anyone who wants not to forget history should grab
a copy of the proceedings.
--
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