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I have seen some RFC documents linked with URLs pointing to third-party (non-ietf.org) formatting tools, and one recent suggested edit reproducing what is currently also a redirect:

I am not very up to date with the IETFs famous conflict resolution mechanisms, but apparently the canonical URL to the html-formatter changed.

  • Any links that need to be updated?
  • Any cases where edits updating the URL are improving the post (beyond consistency while adding new URLs)?
  • Is this the new preferred method of referencing (subsections of) html-formatted RFC into which any broken links should be edited?

(Yes, I am kinda hoping for an answer like "look at mailarchive.ietf.org/.. it explains everything and promises to keep these links all alive forever.")

I have seen some RFC documents linked with URLs pointing to third-party (non-ietf.org) formatting tools, and one recent suggested edit reproducing what is currently also a redirect:

I am not very up to date with the IETFs famous conflict resolution mechanisms, but apparently the canonical URL to the html-formatter changed.

  • Any links that need to be updated?
  • Any cases where edits updating the URL are improving the post (beyond consistency while adding new URLs)?
  • Is this the new preferred method of referencing (subsections of) html-formatted RFC into which any broken links should be edited?

(Yes, I am kinda hoping for an answer like "look at mailarchive.ietf.org/.. it explains everything and promises to keep these links all alive forever.")

I have seen some RFC documents linked with URLs pointing to third-party (non-ietf.org) formatting tools, and one recent suggested edit reproducing what is currently also a redirect:

I am not very up to date with the IETFs famous conflict resolution mechanisms, but apparently the canonical URL to the html-formatter changed.

  • Any links that need to be updated?
  • Any cases where edits updating the URL are improving the post (beyond consistency while adding new URLs)?
  • Is this the new preferred method of referencing (subsections of) html-formatted RFC into which any broken links should be edited?

(Yes, I am kinda hoping for an answer like "look at mailarchive.ietf.org/.. it explains everything and promises to keep these links all alive forever.")

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What to do about URL redirecting tools.ietf.org -> datatracker.ietf.org?

I have seen some RFC documents linked with URLs pointing to third-party (non-ietf.org) formatting tools, and one recent suggested edit reproducing what is currently also a redirect:

I am not very up to date with the IETFs famous conflict resolution mechanisms, but apparently the canonical URL to the html-formatter changed.

  • Any links that need to be updated?
  • Any cases where edits updating the URL are improving the post (beyond consistency while adding new URLs)?
  • Is this the new preferred method of referencing (subsections of) html-formatted RFC into which any broken links should be edited?

(Yes, I am kinda hoping for an answer like "look at mailarchive.ietf.org/.. it explains everything and promises to keep these links all alive forever.")