[Soapbox warning] I love it! Finally a use for Informational RFC's that I get: Let's turn Wikipedia pages into RFC's! [NOT] On Dec 14, 2010, at 10:42 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf