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Re: stability of iana.org URLs

2013-08-02 08:45:14

Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz(_at_)cmu(_dot_)edu> 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 about this. HTML was generally (if
    >> not exclusively) reserved for files that needed to include links to
    >> registration forms .

    > Nonetheless, it's an existing URL in an immutable published RFC.  Once
    > such a thing has been published, right or wrong, best practice is to
    > make sure it remains valid.

that was my point...
I did not think to look at Errata for a URL "mistake"

The Apache mod_spelling module would even have fixed the reference, I think.

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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF(_at_)sandelman(_dot_)ca>, Sandelman Software Works


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