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 ## Linking to External Resources
 
-Links to external resources **SHOULD NOT** be included. External resources may disappear, move, or change unexpectedly.
+External resources are resources that are hosted outside of the EIPs repository. External resources may disappear, move, or change unexpectedly. The following rules apply in order.
+
+If you feel that a link you wish to include shouldn't violate the below rules, please submit a Pull Request to change them. Remember that the smaller and more specific the change, the more likely it will be accepted.
+
+### Access Rules
+
+- All external resources **MUST** be free to both access and distribute.
+- All external resources **MUST** use one of the following whitelisted URI schemes:
+  - `https`
+  - `ipfs`
+
+### Reference Rules
+
+- All external resources are **RECOMMENDED** to be non-normative.
+- All external resources **MUST** be cited.
+  - For example, [Welch, T., "A Technique for High-Performance Data Compression", IEEE Computer 17(6), DOI 10.1109/MC.1984.1659158, June 1984](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1659158).
+
+### Permanence Rules
+
+- Ethereum Magicians **MUST** be allowed in the `discussions-to` preamble entry.
+- All links whose hostname is included in the following list and whose URI scheme is `https` **MUST** be allowed:
+  - `doi.org`
+  - `chainagnostic.org`
+  - `rfc-editor.org` or `www.rfc-editor.org`
+- All links to exact commits hosted on GitHub (of the format `https://github.com/<username>/<repo>/blob/<commit_hash>/<path>`) **MUST** be allowed if they are from one of the following repositories:
+  - `bitcoin/bips`
+  - `ethereum/EIPs`
+  - `ethereum/execution-specs`
+  - `ethereum/consensus-specs`
+- Links with an appropriate backup in the assets folder **MAY** be allowed.
+- All links in `Living`, `Meta`, or `Informational` EIPs **MUST** be allowed.
+  - It is still **RECOMMENDED** to add a backup.
+  
+### Fallback
+- Links should be the most stable (i.e., unlikely to change and expected to be continuously available) and direct reference possible.
+- The International DOI Foundation maintains the [Digital Object Identifier Service](https://www.doi.org) as an online registry of stable, indirect links.  DOI numbers should be included in citations when available.
+- All other external resources **MUST NOT** be included.
 
 ## Linking to other EIPs