What URI for BCP 47?
John Cowan
cowan at ccil.org
Mon Jul 17 20:37:33 CEST 2006
Frank Ellermann scripsit:
> A BCP is necessarily "IESG", therefore the IETF site
> is also "canonical". IIRC you asked for a HTTP URI,
> otherwise we could check out the IETF URN, maybe it
> offers a way to specify BCPs (?)
It does: urn:ietf:bcp:47 is canonical according to RFC 2648.
> > ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/bcp/bcp47.txt
>
> IMO that can't be canonical, you're not interested in
> questions who acts as actual RFC editor, and how the
> current RFC editor and the IETF decide this.
Quite true; however, it is the most stable access
point for RFCs, having been useful since the beginning
of FTP over TCP/IP.
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