[rssac-caucus] Tweaks to RSSAC-002

[Wes Hardaker]

Most date-in-path type things come from CMS systems (wordpress being the
leader) that puts a date on every file / article it publishes.  I suspect
that's what's going on here.

I hate to be "not helpful" after trying to be helpful, but I'm not sure who
would be responsible for coming up with more permanent URLs for documents.
I agree it's a good idea though.

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 8:15 PM, Shane Kerr <shane at time-travellers.org>
wrote:

> Wes,
>
> At 2016-08-31 07:04:37 -0700
> Wes Hardaker <hardaker at isi.edu> wrote:
>
> > > Where is the repository for RSSAC documents?
> >
> > ICANN documents as a whole can be challenging to find, to the
> > multiple-versions and archived nature combined with their web
> > infrastructure, which is a typical CMS engine as far as I can tell.  The
> > results are searches that don't always point to the most recent
> > document.
> >
> > Instead, I'd suggest searching for "RSSAC publications" which turns up
> > the much more useful and should always be up to date publication list
> > based on release dates:
> >
> > https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/rssac-publications-2014-05-12-en
> >
> > [Note: I have no role over the ICANN pages and the publication process]
>
> Thanks for the pointer!
>
> My guess is that other people would try a similar process to the one
> that I used and also end up in the wrong place.
>
> Educating everyone in the world seems really hard. Fixing the ICANN
> pages and publication process is probably easier, but I can easily
> imagine it taking many months if not years.
>
> What seems relatively easy would be to put some text at the top of the
> document saying:
>
> "Please look for the latest version of this document at this page:
>
> https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/rssac-publications-2014-05-12-en"
>
> It's not great, because a human (or program) still has to search
> through the list and find the most recent copy, but it at least gives a
> hint about how to do this.
>
> BTW, I love the URL which includes a random date in it, although I am a
> bit disappointed that it doesn't have "pages/pages" in the path. ;)
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Shane
>



-- 
Wes Hardaker
USC/ISI
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