Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> If only we could force them
Let's say "convince", and an absolute URL to the real registry
could do the trick. Ira posted some examples like RfC 3806:
<http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.ietf.ltru/3737>
> we need to expect IANA to maintain such stability. The other
> option is to find another registration authority.
The latter option would require a lot of work: Update several
RfCs so that registries could be hosted elsewhere. Or appoint
somebody to maintain PURLs for the IETF if you trust that PURL
lives longer than the direct URL.
From that POV organizations like W3C or PURL are still "new"
(OTOH OCLC was founded 1967, that's good enough for the IETF).
> As Tim Berners-Lee puts it, "Cool URIs don't change"
ACK. But IMHO it's not the main issue here. I'd gues that
less than 1000 persons worldwide have ever heard of "3066bis".
The relevant reality is defined by "Googlebot finds it" plus
"Google shows it among the first 10 hits". An absolute URL
in an RfC is a guarantee to spread the news, even in the worst
case (= IANA picks a new URL for the new registry).
Without that guarantee we can still hope that IANA picks the
old URL for the new registry, because then links on existing
pages continue to work for what we want. E.g. I have a link
<http://www.iana.org/assignments/lang-tags/>
Okay, I'd update it when necessary, but numerous other folks
won't, unless they check links and get a 404. Standards and
regitries are among other things wishful thinking, if nobody
knows them or everybody ignores them they are dead.
"Search Engine Optimization" is very important. That's why I
proposed to add <http://www.inter-locale.com> to the <author>
section: It will sky rocket Addison's page rank, this page
will have an URL to the new registry, Googlebot will find it,
and that's how "shaping reality" works today (AFAIK + IMHO).
Bye, Frank
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