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/
At this point, I don't remember why the URL got chosen. I was on the Austin lists for quite some time, and Andrew Josey put out a call for people to package the SUSv3 standards. I remember sorting out the details with him at the time.
Hmmm, ok, I see what you are getting at, from the terms and conditions:
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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.
I could do this, but I don't know how to get appropriate permission to represent myself as "Debian" to the Open Group. I've added
leader@debian.org to the cc: list to see if there's a suggestion.