[rfc-i] "canonical" URI for RFCs, BCPs

[Joe Touch]

Paul Hoffman wrote:
> At 3:47 PM -0500 1/26/10, Henning Schulzrinne wrote:
>> DOIs would be nice, given that every other technical paper of
>> relevance now has one.
> 
> Having a DOI is not the same as a URI that is guaranteed to be
> resolvable in the way that the controlling organization wants.
> 
> At 1:18 PM -0800 1/26/10, Joe Touch wrote:
>> AFAICT, the following pattern ought to be the one with the
>> long-term commitment:  http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc[0-9]+.txt
> 
> Please, no. That means that the format can never be anything other
> than a text file.

Although I agree, note that this responds with a page with information
ABOUT the document, not with the document itself (and it's not even in
XML, FWIW).

Until non-txt RFCs are canonical, the above is correct. That fact is
actually stated on the page these resolve to, e.g., for 793:

  Canonical URL:
    http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc793.txt

When that policy changes, then it would be useful to provide the URL to
the specific canonical document (.ps, .pdf, .xml, .wahoo, or whatever).

Joe

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