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 files
that needed to include links to registration forms, like MIME/Media Types
(which will be converted to XML shortly) and URI Schemes.
As Barry said, we do intend to keep that same short
http://www.iana.org/assignments/example format working for every current page,
even the newly-created ones. We also prefer to see that format used in
documents, since we can't guarantee that the file extension used for the long
version won't change. (This information will be appearing on the website in
some form.)
(BTW: I've never tried writing to ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org from our ticketing
system, so Barry, would you mind pushing this along if it never shows up there?)
Amanda Baber
IANA Request Specialist
ICANN
On Wed Jul 31 14:06:28 2013, barryleiba(_at_)computer(_dot_)org 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 the old URLs would at least have a 301 error on them.
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. Supposed
they should decide to turn them all into JSON (aieeeeeeeee!)... the
URLs would change again. But the suffix-less version will always
work.
When I've done AD reviews of documents that cite IANA URLs, I've given
the authors that feedback, and suggested the change to the suffix-less
URLs. I also intend to suggest to IANA (thanks to a document author,
and I've since forgotten who it was; sorry) that they post permalinks
in all the registries, so people will know which URL they ought to
use, and not have to guess.
Barry, Applications AD