Re: stability of iana.org URLs

2013-08-02 Thread Michael Richardson
Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: > On Thu, 2013-08-01 at 01:10 -0700, Amanda Baber wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The link in RFC3315 is actually incorrect -- it should have been >> http://www.iana.org/assignments/enterprise-numbers, without the file >> extension, and there's an erratum abou

Re: stability of iana.org URLs

2013-08-02 Thread Carlos Pignataro (cpignata)
Hi, Amanda, In my experience, at some point, IANA was instructing authors to replace registry URLs (i.e., URLs to specific registries) with a generic pointer to http://www.iana.org instead. This had been based on text from RFC 5226, namely [1] and [2]. Before that there were URLs identifying t

Re: stability of iana.org URLs

2013-08-02 Thread Tony Hansen
I sent IANA a list of 45 iana.org URLs found in the RFCs that generate 404 NOT FOUND (along with the number of the RFC(s) where that URL was found). Amanda said she'd pass the list on to "the redirector". Tony On 8/1/2013 2:48 PM, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: > Nonetheless, it's an existing URL i

[IANA #700324] stability of iana.org URLs

2013-08-02 Thread Amanda Baber via RT
Hi, The link in RFC3315 is actually incorrect -- it should have been http://www.iana.org/assignments/enterprise-numbers, without the file extension, and there's an erratum about this. HTML was generally (I say "generally" because there may be exceptions Michelle would know about) reserved for f

Re: stability of iana.org URLs

2013-08-01 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Thu, 2013-08-01 at 01:10 -0700, Amanda Baber wrote: > Hi, > > The link in RFC3315 is actually incorrect -- it should have been > http://www.iana.org/assignments/enterprise-numbers, without the file > extension, and there's an erratum about this. HTML was generally (if > not exclusively) reserve

Re: stability of iana.org URLs

2013-08-01 Thread ned+ietf
> Hi, > The link in RFC3315 is actually incorrect -- it should have been > http://www.iana.org/assignments/enterprise-numbers, without the file > extension, and there's an erratum about this. HTML was generally (if not > exclusively) reserved for files that needed to include links to registrati

Re: stability of iana.org URLs

2013-08-01 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/1/13 2:01 PM, John Curran wrote: > On Jul 31, 2013, at 10:11 AM, Peter Saint-Andre > wrote: >> >> That's true, but cool URIs don't change: >> >> http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html > > Even cooler would have been URN's (e.g. > urn:ietf:e

Re: stability of iana.org URLs

2013-08-01 Thread John Curran
On Jul 31, 2013, at 10:11 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > > That's true, but cool URIs don't change: > > http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html Even cooler would have been URN's (e.g. urn:ietf:enterprise-numbers), which was designed specifically as a persistent handle to information (ref: ht

Re: stability of iana.org URLs

2013-08-01 Thread Amanda Baber
Hi, The link in RFC3315 is actually incorrect -- it should have been http://www.iana.org/assignments/enterprise-numbers, without the file extension, and there's an erratum about this. HTML was generally (if not exclusively) reserved for files that needed to include links to registration forms .

Re: stability of iana.org URLs

2013-07-31 Thread ned+ietf
> On 7/31/13 4:06 PM, Barry Leiba wrote: > >> I just followed http://www.iana.org/assignments/enterprise-numbers.html > >> From RFC3315 (DHCPv6)'s reference section. Ten years later, the URL > >> doesn't work. > >> > >> I know that things were reworked when we went to XML based storage, but > >> I

Re: stability of iana.org URLs

2013-07-31 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: Barry Leiba > They have: they are keyed off the suffix-less URIs. That's why they > want us to use those. That doesn't change the point that breaking URLs in _previously-published, static_ documents is a Bad Thing. Noel

Re: stability of iana.org URLs

2013-07-31 Thread Barry Leiba
>>> I discovered that dropping the .html gets me the right data at: >>> http://www.iana.org/assignments/enterprise-numbers >> >> Yes: that's the form that IANA would like you to use. They changed >> their registries from HTML to XML, and the URLs changed. > > That's true, but cool URIs don't cha

Re: stability of iana.org URLs

2013-07-31 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 7/31/13 4:06 PM, Barry Leiba wrote: >> I just followed http://www.iana.org/assignments/enterprise-numbers.html >> From RFC3315 (DHCPv6)'s reference section. Ten years later, the URL >> doesn't work. >> >> I know that things were reworked when we went to XML based storage, but >> I thought that

Re: stability of iana.org URLs

2013-07-31 Thread Barry Leiba
> I just followed http://www.iana.org/assignments/enterprise-numbers.html > From RFC3315 (DHCPv6)'s reference section. Ten years later, the URL > doesn't work. > > I know that things were reworked when we went to XML based storage, but > I thought that the old URLs would at least have a 301 error

stability of iana.org URLs

2013-07-31 Thread Michael Richardson
I just followed http://www.iana.org/assignments/enterprise-numbers.html From RFC3315 (DHCPv6)'s reference section. Ten years later, the URL doesn't work. I know that things were reworked when we went to XML based storage, but I thought that the old URLs would at least have a 301 error on them.