see here the OMB policy a-119 about federal references to standards:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/circulars_a119/
j. How should my agency reference voluntary consensus standards?
Your agency should reference voluntary consensus standards, along with
sources of availability, in appropriate publications, regulatory orders, and
related internal documents. In regulations, the reference must include the
date of issuance
George T. Willingmyre, P.E.
President, GTW Associates
Spencerville, MD USA 20868
----- Original Message -----
From: "Noel Chiappa" <jnc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 7:40 AM
Subject: Re: Clarification for Copyright to referred material in IETF draft
> From: Simon Josefsson <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Wikipedia has .. stable URLs, which makes it on par or better than
> other external references.
That's a sad truth - I find link-rot is an incredible problem with
references
when I'm looking at older material; stuff seems to go offline all the
time,
even valuable material. The company decides to redo their website, or
someone
moves to a new organization, or, or, or...
Noel
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