[LEAPSECS] rewriting history of Torino Colloquium

[Kimo Crossman]

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On Apr 11, 2011 1:06 PM, "Tom Van Baak" <tvb at leapsecond.com> wrote:

> Two comments --

>

> 1) In my experience URL's change from time to time (note the U in

> URI means Uniform, not Universal).

>

> Whether compuserve or geocities, hp.com or sun.com, companies

> and domains come and go; private or commercial or academic. It

> just happens. You know this. Web layouts come and go too: html

> one day; asp another; then php.

>

> There's no need to fear "rewriting history" just because a domain

> changes or a URL gets reorganized by an IT department. Honestly,

> how long do you think your own ucolick.org or ~sla will be around?

>

> 2) But based on your note, I cached the Torino proceedings here:

> http://leapsecond.com/history/torino/

>

> Still, please, when some day my web site or the LEAPSECS list

> goes away, don't assume there's a conspiracy. It's more likely

> that the ISP badly fumbled an upgrade, or I forgot to pay the bills,

> or my estate has no clue what all these old files are.

>

> /tvb

>

> ----- Original Message -----

> From: "Steve Allen" <sla at ucolick.org>

> To: "Leap Second Discussion List" <leapsecs at leapsecond.com>

> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 6:49 PM

> Subject: [LEAPSECS] rewriting history of Torino Colloquium

>

>

>> When the ITU-R held its colloquium in Torino in 2003 the Italian

>> institute was the IEN. Originally the proceedings were online at

>>

>> http://www.ien.it/luc/cesio/itu/ITU.shtml

>>

>> During subsequent reorganizations that became the INRIM. Until

>> recently they had continued to host the proceedings of the 2003

>> colloquium at this URL

>>

>> http://www.inrim.it/luc/cesio/itu/ITU.shtml

>>

>> I was recently informed that this link is now dead.

>> Much more to my surprise I find that there is no trace of it

>> in the Internet Archive's wayback machine.

>>

>> Fortunately the wayback machine had crawled the original website,

>> and during at least some of the many crawls the content was available.

>>

>> I suggest that anyone who wants not to forget history should grab

>> a copy of the proceedings.

>>

>> --

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