On Dec 14, 2010, at 7:40 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: >> 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... The IETF probably should archive any material used as a reference in an RFC, at the time the RFC is published. I do not believe that this would cause copyright issues (note : IANAL), but making that archive publicly available might. Maybe we could do something there in connection with the Internet Archive. Regards Marshall > > Noel > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf