Do move to bids-standard.org from bids.neuroimaging.io

[yarikoptic]

@robertoostenveld in said

have hence reserved "bids-standard.org" (which now redirects to the current domain).

and indeed the redirect there for the www. (not for plain ATM)

❯ wget -S http://www.bids-standard.org
--2025-06-12 06:20:02--  http://www.bids-standard.org/
Resolving www.bids-standard.org (www.bids-standard.org)... 192.64.119.254
Connecting to www.bids-standard.org (www.bids-standard.org)|192.64.119.254|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 
  HTTP/1.1 302 Found
  Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 10:20:02 GMT
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  Connection: keep-alive
  Location: https://bids.neuroimaging.io/
  X-Served-By: Namecheap URL Forward
  Server: namecheap-nginx
Location: https://bids.neuroimaging.io/ [following]
--2025-06-12 06:20:03--  https://bids.neuroimaging.io/
Resolving bids.neuroimaging.io (bids.neuroimaging.io)... 185.199.109.153, 185.199.110.153, 185.199.108.153, ...
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I think the time is right to finally move to that domain as the primary one and have bids.neuroimaging.io to redirect there, so we could change all the URL mentionings on the website and spec to bids-standard.org

• Swap the two in DNS
  • who reserved/has it? (so who is in control)
  • who/how bids.neuroimaging.io is managed -- should redirect
• Change CNAME for the website host in github pages
• Adjust URLs in bids-website: Replace bids.neuroimaging.io with bids-standard.org #674
• ...

Related:

• Change wording to point to not limit BIDS to "neuroimaging" #672

[ericearl]

@yarikoptic I thought the decision was to just keep using our established site (bids.neuroimaging.io)? Ariel would (probably) remember the steering group conversation we had a ways back, when I believe he said not to migrate and everyone agreed.

But assuming I'm wrong, I believe Robert Oostenveld was the one who bought the bids-standard.org domain. Otherwise, I think you got the steps right if we move forward with a website domain redirect.

[yarikoptic]

Well, a "right" back then decision of the past might need to be reconsidered in the future. Also reflecting on our discussion on the website frontpage "friendliness" to the visitors. Domain name screaming "I am not for you", happen some non-neuroimaging neuroscientist comes, is not a factor to ignore.
I think it might be the point to reconsider. @kimberlylray would you be so kind to add this issue to the next steering group meeting agenda?

[yarikoptic]

During our steering group meeting, everyone was in support of such a move.

• I believe @poldrack is the owner of the domain according to past note. I wonder where/how we should maintain such "paid" community resources -- most likely should be in some "private storage" maintained by maintainers.
• We would need to setup an extensive list of redirects based on current website and its set of redirects from prior website.
• @bids-standard/maintainers - what would be your opinion on such an action and whether anyone from the team can get involved to facilitate this or should be someone from outside of the team (heh -- me?) to lead this effort?

[poldrack]

I don't have a problem continuing to pay for the domain, but I'm also happy to hand it over. Perhaps a first step would be that I give full admin privileges for the domain (on Namecheap) to a member of the steering committee. at least that helps address the bus factor.

[yarikoptic]

I would not mind to be the bus-factor multiplier and/or conduit into the ultimate vault -- just drop me an email please, could be GPG encrypted : overall, I think it is for some @bids-standard/maintainers (e.g. @effigies ?) to add to their list of secrets they must have somewhere for other parts of the infrastructure.

[julia-pfarr]

• We would need to setup an extensive list of redirects based on current website and its set of redirects from prior website.

I can take care of the redirects but not of the secrets