If my memory is correct, we've had the discussion about
completely stable registry URLs with IANA a few times, each time
with a result more or less equivalent to your "20+ years"
concern. That concern is increased by periodic discussions
about the possibility of splitting up components of the IANA
function(s). However, I wonder whether we might be able to
reach an agreement with them to maintain a stable search format,
e.g., to make something like
http://protocol-registries.iana.org/?registry="Registry-Name";
work permanently and stably for all protocol parameter
registries.
john
--On Sunday, April 18, 2010 23:10 +0300 Jari Arkko
<jari(_dot_)arkko(_at_)piuha(_dot_)net> wrote:
I agree of course that uniqueness should be a MUST.
But while I don't feel strongly about this, I'm actually a
little reluctant to put permanent URIs to RFC. First of all,
from the point of the RFC in question the registry use is
largely a publication-time issue. If I implement RFC XXX all
the code points that I need are already verbatim in the RFC.
Secondly, for some reason I feel uncomfortable with placing a
permanent pointer to the RFC, while I agree that at times it
would be helpful. Call me old-fashioned, but I fear that
something might change in, say, the next 20+ years. By the
way, current use at least for me does not go through a search
engine but rather through indirection. I know the IANA
registries page, and I search the given registry name from
that. YMMV.
(That being said, I wonder if some tool magic would display
these references as pointers, just as already happens for
normal references.)
Jari
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