> 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.

+1. mod_rewrite is nobody's friend, but it can be tamed and put to good use.

                                Ned

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