[LEAPSECS] rewriting history of Torino Colloquium

[Tom Van Baak]

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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