It appears that Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said: >I see that the document is Informational. >I'm unclear if this document is identical to the 1996 description, or if >there are changes against the 1996 version. It adds provision for encoding UTF-8 characters in URLs and says patterns can have * and $ metacharacters and # comments. >I wonder if 2.3.1.2. Redirects should suggest the file be moved to >/.well-known/robots.txt with a redirect, that perhaps shouldn't be counted. >That would be a change which may be more than desired. That seems like a poor idea for a widely implemented 25 year old spec. But see the "no derivatives" license on the draft. R's, John -- last-call mailing list last-call@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/last-call
