Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy, version two
On Tue November 21 2006 03:18, Bruce Sass wrote:
> On Tue November 21 2006 01:40, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Bruce Sass <bmsass@shaw.ca> writes:
> > > On Mon November 20 2006 23:52, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > >> + from <url id="http://www.unix.org/version3/online.html";
> > >> + name="The Open Group"> after free
> > >> + registration.</footnote>
> > >
> > > Any reason for not using:
> > > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/
> >
> > Presumably that's a URL generated by someone else who registered,
> > yes? I don't like the registration business, but if that's what
> > they want to do, I don't really feel right about bypassing it.
>
> http://www.opengroup.org/ is The Open Group's website, I don't think
> they would need to register themselves.
Hmmm, ok, I see what you are getting at, from the terms and conditions:
"""
We ask readers to give us their name and email address for a number of reasons:
To enable us to gauge the interest in any particular document/subject area
To enable us to alert you to new editions of the specification
To enable us to send you details of any corrigenda
"""
The 009695399 in the www.opengroup.org URI looks to be a publication
number of some sort (one digit shy of an ISBN though); it is used by the
wikipedia entry (where I first found it), and the similar 9-digit bit of
the URL in the Debian susv3 installer gets rewritten to it.
I think that if the susv3 Maintainer (Jeff Bailey) registered as "Debian" to
get the URL then it would be OK, maybe even preferable, to use:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/ in Policy.
- Bruce
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