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@time-travellers.org> wrote:
Wes,
At 2016-08-31 07:04:37 -0700 Wes Hardaker <hardaker@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