[virtio-comment] Re: [tab] Re: [virtio-comment] TAB comments on Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO) Version 1.1

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

See VIRTIO-175 (link died, and this isn't the first time for IEEE)
as well as VIRTIO-173 (a bunch of links which now redirect, but
we have no idea whether the old or the new link is
more likely to stay live for longer).


On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 10:42:12AM -0500, Chet Ensign wrote:
> Michael, where are the links you are referring to? Can you point me to some
> examples? 
> 
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 10:14 AM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>     Chet, I have a question:
>     lots of links to other specifications moved around since virtio 1.0.
>     Some have a redirect.  Some are just silently broken.  Sure we can keep
>     chasing them around but I wonder about the utility of this.
> 
>     OASIS is in fact unusual in that it tries hard to keep old links alive.
> 
>     Is there an issue wrt OASIS bylaws to link to a wikipedia page instead?
>     Hard to make any guarantees anyway, but at least for now there are
>     people that watch this space and keep updating the links there.  For
>     example:
> 
>     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802
> 
>     instead of the (now dead)
>             http://standards.ieee.org/about/get/802/802.html
> 
>     Thanks!
> 
>     --
>     MST
> 
> 
> 
> --
> 
> /chet 
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