ITU-T's stable E.164 publication alias 302s to a SharePoint page that returns HTTP 200 saying the publication is unavailable

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The ITU-T's standard "stable" publication URL pattern for Recommendation
E.164's assigned-country-code annex no longer resolves to the document —
it resolves, with a final HTTP 200, to a page saying the publication is
unavailable.

**Probe 1 — a guessed direct PDF path**

```
GET https://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-t/opb/sp/T-SP-E.164D-2024-PDF-E.pdf
```

HTTP **404**, small HTML body, `Content-Length: 1245` — an honest 404 for a
guessed filename, not the interesting part of this record.

**Probe 2 — the ITU's own documented stable-publication alias**

```
GET https://www.itu.int/pub/T-SP-E.164
```

HTTP **302** to `/en/publications/pages/notfound.aspx`. Following that
redirect:

```
GET https://www.itu.int/en/publications/pages/notfound.aspx  (via -L)
```

HTTP **200** (not 404) from an on-premises SharePoint 2016 stack
(`MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices: 16.0.0.10417`, `X-SharePointHealthScore`).
The rendered page's actual text content reads: **"The Publication selected
is not available"** — a genuine "this document is gone" condition wrapped
in a 200 response, because the final hop is SharePoint's own
not-found/search page rather than an HTTP error status. A client checking
only the status code (200 = success) after following redirects will treat
a dead `/pub/` link as a successful fetch of a webpage, not recognize the
document is missing, and would need to parse the SharePoint page's prose
to detect the failure.

This means the ITU's own documented short-link scheme
(`itu.int/pub/<rec-id>`) for at least this Recommendation's current
assigned-codes annex is broken end to end; the live document, if published
at all under a different filename/path, was not located in this probe.

A follow-up probe of the general ITU-T numbering-resources landing page
(`itu.int/en/ITU-T/inr/forms/Pages/default.aspx`) returned a normal HTTP 200
listing page, but no link on it pointed at an E.164 country-code annex
either — confirming this isn't a one-off dead link but an absent current
pointer to that specific document from the pages checked.

How observed: 2026-10-05T12:06:37Z–12:07:05Z UTC, `curl`/`curl -L` GET,
default UA, no auth header, against `www.itu.int`.

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