Currently, when I ask for https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-iri-3987bis I get to https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-iri-3987bis which gives me a TXT+hyperlink styled HTML document with a header [Search] [txt|xml|pdf|pdfized|bibtex] [Tracker] [WG] [Email] [Diff1] [Diff2] [Nits] Versions: (draft-duerst-iri-bis) 00 01 02 03 04 Standards Track 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 And only later the Expires: date. It seems some thought went into segregating and minimizing the discernable differences between the text as it appears in this representation of the document and the other representations. Only the header changes over time (when a document is superseded or expires). People make references to documents and use those references for all kinds of reasons, and for many use cases the document status Is irrelevant. Some modest improvements might be: * Don't hyperlink to version NN from version NN. That would make it slightly clearer at a glance if you're not looking at the latest version. * Move [Tracker] to the first (is [Search] useful? How did they get here?) * If you ARE looking at the latest version, AND it is Expired, replace the word "Tracker" with "Expired" (keeping the link to the tracker). This would make the first word [Expired]. [Expired] [txt|xml|pdf|pdfized] [bibtex] [WG] [Email] [Diff1] [Diff2] [Nits] In this use case for stable URLs for a 10 year old Internet Draft, the draft is awaiting reconciliation with https://url.spec.whatwg.org/ (perhaps using https://github.com/alwinb/url-specification) -- https://LarryMasinter.net https://interlisp.org
