No. I won't promise that. I expect the permanent place for this stuff
will either be via the IETF, the W3C, or both. I'll try to make a
smooth transition (forwarding pointers and such), but I can't make
any guarantees.
>Is there a more suitable document?
The HTML 2.0 RFC _will_ be more suitable, whenever that happens.
Your best bet to make a reliable reference that will last two
years is to include a bunch of redundant information that a body
can use, for example, to give to a search engine or robot.
You can reliably cite the current internet draft:
"HyperText Markup Language Specification -- 2.0",
T. Berners-Lee and D. Connolly, 28 Nov 1994.
ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-html-spec-00.txt
but it will expire six months from publication. Persumably,
the IETF will give a forwarding pointer to the RFC, but I don't know.
Dan