The old CaveBear website was getting a bit old - it was started, I believe in 1994 and thus is officially a teenager.

The new one is based on a Joomla, a content management system.  That is a source of both flexibility and constraints.  We'll see how it works out.

One of the hardest parts of this has been the preservation of old content at the old URL's.  I did not want any pointers held by search engines to end up pointing into the void.  There are a couple of ways to do this.  I could have maintained mapping rules that would rewrite old URLs into new ones.  But I suspect that over time that would become unwieldy. So I decided to use what are called "permanent redirects" to a new, archival, location.  It may take a while, but I hope that the search engines, Wikipedia, and other repositories that contain links to materials on this site will recognize the redirections and update their links.

For example, the popular collection of Ethernet vendor codes has been moved to the archive and may be reached by either the old or new URL.

I've tried to accumulate all of my papers and documents, except for my CaveBear blog, into a single collection.

But no matter how hard I've worked, I'm sure that something will fall through the cracks, that some old material will vanish.  For that reason I chose to preserve the old website in the web accessible archive.

As for new things:

I've added an Internet Governance aggregator to collect RSS feeds from useful internet governance sites.

And I hope to add a small photo gallery.