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Are you going to make this list of resources available online or is it for personal consumption only?

So far, the list of resources is a collection of PDFs I've downloaded plus a script to download the latest version of every relevant specification. (Although it does seem that Intel likes breaking its links to the latest ISA PDF every now and then). I don't have a great solution for things that are essentially web-only pages, which is how the Itanium ABI is handled (and unlike C, C++ makes it hard to find the relevant working draft copies, instead preferring to use the HTML-based https://eel.is/c++draft for that).

I probably will make it publicly available eventually, it just hasn't been a priority for me.

The most widespread standard for archiving collections of web pages is WARC - it is a publicly available ISO standard so it's very future-proof. WACZ (https://specs.webrecorder.net/wacz/1.1.1/) is a more recent take that is basically zipped WARC + index + metadata, and Internet Archive can generate them when archiving is requested (https://web.archive.org/save/).

In addition to that, I would also suggest using https://zimit.kiwix.org. It's a very compact representation that has full text index support for convenient searching, the format is open and documented, and first-party readers are available on all major platforms. And for stuff like this, Kiwix might actually be interested in adding them to their official library at https://library.kiwix.org/ if you contact them.

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