As David says, this pair of observations have been made before
but may have gotten lost in longer messages. +1 -- I really
think that stability issue is the bottom line.
john
--On Friday, April 10, 2015 06:31 -0700
ned+ietf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> It would be irresponsible to break a long-time commitment to
>> the stability of these references. And it would make the
>> organization look incompetent. I can imagine that there are
>> situations where access to specific documents by explicit
>> reference would traverse a firewall that wouldn't allow the
>> generic searches needed to locate the alternative access
>> method.
>
> I have to say I find this argument extremely compelling.
>
>> If the FTP server product which refuses to follow SYMLINKs
>> must be used for some operational reason, creating a clone of
>> the tree full of SYMLINKs with fully resolved file copies
>> isn't rocket science. rsync for example will perform that
>> function with the proper flags.
>
> Exactly what I thought when I first heard of the issue.