RE: domain change to w3.org?

Thanks so much for this clarification.  I am editor on a number of ISO specs that reference W3C specs and rely on the stability of the URLs.

Dianne Kennedy
Idealliance

From: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2019 2:40 AM
To: Paola Di Maio <paoladimaio10@gmail.com>
Cc: William Waites <wwaites@tardis.ed.ac.uk>; semantic-web at W3C <semantic-web@w3c.org>
Subject: Re: domain change to w3.org?

Paola,

as Antoine noted, and I am just reinforcing this: the 'core' domain name has always been w3.org<http://w3.org>. The specification has always been https://www.w3.org/TR/*, the RDF namespace has always been our beloved http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#<http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns>, etc. 'w3c.org<http://w3c.org>' is registered to W3C for obvious defensive reasons and http://www.w3c.org is simply redirected to http://www.w3.org. The only 'organizational' change in recent years has been the move towards 'https' away from 'http' (although the various RDF vocabulary URL-s have not changed).


On the other issue: I am not sure what it means when you say 'I have been trying to propose AIKR CG meeting at TPAC'. I have contacted our meeting planners, but it would help if you told me what steps you undertook (not necessarily on a public mail because I doubt these days are interested to the participants of the list).

Sincerely

Ivan


On 22 May 2019, at 10:14, Paola Di Maio <paoladimaio10@gmail.com<mailto:paoladimaio10@gmail.com>> wrote:

Ah,  thanks, Antoine and WW

I must have only noticed recently then-
I was concerned may be some organisational changes going on

Best heartbeats
PDM

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 3:54 PM William Waites <wwaites@tardis.ed.ac.uk<mailto:wwaites@tardis.ed.ac.uk>> wrote:
On 05/22, Paola Di Maio wrote:
> I have noticed in recent months - but cannot tell how long it has been -
> tha the domain name of W3C website (previously w3c.org<http://w3c.org/>) has been shifting
> to w3.org<http://w3.org/>

Dear Paola,

It looks like it's been going on for a little while:

    https://web.archive.org/web/19961227091242/http://www19.w3.org/<https://web.archive.org/web/19961227091242/http:/www19.w3.org/>
    https://web.archive.org/web/19971015012022/http://www19.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-philosophy/<https://web.archive.org/web/19971015012022/http:/www19.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-philosophy/>

The web site has undergone a little bit of a redesign:

    https://web.archive.org/web/19990422190841/http://www.w3.org/<https://web.archive.org/web/19990422190841/http:/www.w3.org/>

Best wishes,

William Waites | wwaites@inf.ed.ac.uk<mailto:wwaites@inf.ed.ac.uk>
Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science
School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh


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