407960 - Broken links in the Mozilla Crypto FAQ

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Michael Stone]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.10) Gecko/20071126 Fedora/2.0.0.10-1.fc7 Firefox/2.0.0.10
Build Identifier: 

All four hyperlinks in the penultimate paragraph of Section 1-1 of the Mozilla Crypto FAQ:

"For information on new US encryption export regulations, see the U.S. Department of Commerce press release announcing the new regulations, the actual revisions to the regulations, and the updated regulations themselves. Export of source code for open source software is addressed in Part 740, section 740.13(e), "Unrestricted encryption source code"; export of binaries is addressed in 740.17.

appear to me to be broken.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit http://www.mozilla.org/crypto-faq.html#1-1.
2. Navigate to the next-to-last paragraph.
3. Open each of the hyperlinks contained in this paragraph.

Actual Results:  
All four links failed to open, either because of name resolution errors, timeouts,  or changes in the underlying servers.

Expected Results:  
The FAQ should refer to current documents.

Comment 1

[Jeremy Baron]

What links should be used there?
Keep in mind that many mozilla.org pages are either in transition to one of the wikis or unmaintained (or both)

Comment 2

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Confirming.

Comment 3

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Attachment: Patch v1

This patch does the following:
  * Adds a link to cdt.org (original press release reprinted) for "press
    release"
  * Removes the "actual revisions" link since I couldn't find anything suitable 
    to replace it.
  * Adds a link to cdt.org (final version of regulations) for "updated
    regulations"
  * Adds a link to access.gpo.gov's "Part 740"
  * Adds "(PDF)" behind links to PDFs

See also: http://www.cdt.org/crypto/admin/

Comment 4

[Frank Hecker]

r+ (or whatever the idiom is -- I don't do this enough to remember)

The patch looks fine to me. Note that the crypto FAQ is outdated in general and really needs to be rewritten entirely. However that can await another day.

Comment 5

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Comment on attachment 292694 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch v1

Marking r+ for Frank.

Reed, can you give this a quick once-over?

Comment 6

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Comment on attachment 292694 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch v1

Reed said Frank's review is enough.

Comment 7

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Thanks for filing this Michael!

--

Checking in crypto-faq.html;
/www/mozilla-org/html/crypto-faq.html,v  <--  crypto-faq.html
new revision: 1.13; previous revision: 1.12
done

Comment 8

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

The document has been migrating to the MDC:
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mozilla_Crypto_FAQ (patched)

Comment 9

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

(In reply to comment #8)
> The document has been migrating to the MDC:
> http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mozilla_Crypto_FAQ (patched)

Given the type of document it is, I kind of think it should have a more stable, non-wiki base, but I'll leave that up to Frank. We can redirect it if the wiki is fine.

Comment 10

[Frank Hecker]

The crypto FAQ isn't an official policy document, and it's also not legal advice. It was intended as a traditional FAQ that provided the best information available at the time. It's now badly out of date, as I mentioned, and could use some editing. If having it on a wiki page can make that more likely, all the better. We'd certainly like the document to be as accurate as possible, but that's the same goal we have for developer documentation, and we see fit to put that on a wiki.

So personally I'd be OK with moving the document to the wiki and redirecting the original www.mozilla.org URL.