Re: stability of iana.org URLs

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On 7/31/13 4:06 PM, Barry Leiba wrote:
>> I just followed http://www.iana.org/assignments/enterprise-numbers.html
>> From RFC3315 (DHCPv6)'s reference section.  Ten years later, the URL
>> doesn't work.
>>
>> I know that things were reworked when we went to XML based storage, but
>> I thought that the old URLs would at least have a 301 error on them.
>>
>> I discovered that dropping the .html gets me the right data at:
>>   http://www.iana.org/assignments/enterprise-numbers
> 
> Yes: that's the form that IANA would like you to use.  They changed
> their registries from HTML to XML, and the URLs changed.

That's true, but cool URIs don't change:

http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html

IMHO it'd be easy enough to put general redirects in place.

Peter

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