What's the Problem? [via Robustness and Archiving Community Group]

Before we enumerate use cases, we can state some initial indications of a
problem.

Whether links fail because of DDoS attacks, censorship, or just plain old link
rot, dead links are a problem for Internet users everywhere.

This isn't a new problem (W3C - Cool URIs don't change).
49% of links in Supreme court opinions are dead
NYT - In Supreme Court Opinions, Web Links to Nowhere
136,312 Wikipedia articles contain dead external links
Wikipedia - Category:All articles with dead external links
Some centralized initiatives, such as the Internet Archive, Perma.cc, and
Memento, are attempting to snapshot and preserve the Internet.

But more and more, just a handful of centralized entities host information
online. Online centralization creates "choke points" that can restrict access to
web content.

This Community Group intends to pursue complementary solutions to missing online
content from various angles:

 date stamped archiving of web content
 enabling content management systems and content authors to embed knowledge of
archives and citation dates into links
 providing browsing users with ways to discover this information

The more routes we provide to information, the more all people can freely share
that information, even in the face of filtering or blockages.



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