Re: Update to the IETF Web Site

[Alexa Morris <amorris at amsl.com>]

Barry,

The old WG charter pages will redirect to the new URLs, so all  
bookmarked links will continue to function.

Regards,
Alexa

On Jun 24, 2009, at 1:45 PM, Barry Leiba wrote:

> > an overhaul of the IETF web site.  The goals for the new site were  
> > simple
> > and included:
> >
> > 1) Make it easier for those who are new to the IETF to get involved;
> >
> > 2) Make it easier for experienced community members to access the
> >   tools and information they most need; and
> >
> > 3) Ensure that the web site is compliant with W3C standards and
> >   accessible to as many people as possible.
>
> Going at number two:
> I see that the URLs for the working group charters change:
>  OLD...
>    http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/dkim-charter.html
>  NEW...
>    http://www6.ietf.org/dyn/wg/charter/dkim.html
>
> The thing is that people have placed links to the working group
> charters in many, many places, some of which will be cumbersome to
> update (blogs, for example).  The same is true for RFCs, and, less
> importantly, though not to be ignored, Internet Drafts.  Because the
> documents don't have links off of www.ietf.org, they'll probably be
> OK.
>
> Please, I strongly urge you to at least make aliases so that the old
> ".../html.charters/WGNAME-charter.html" links still work.  There
> really are links to them all over the place.
>
> Thanks...
> Barry Leiba

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