CMSWire posting on SharePoint 2016:  Durable Links functionality.

• This is important to the Information Governance community for several reasons. First, broken links are frustrating when it is just a routine website. But if the work-related site contains File Plans, Taxonomies, or other mapping entities (records keeping systems), the user has lost numerous URLs that may have led to a vast array of essential records. Imagine future researchers not being able to access a critical decision that may have only been published on a a unique SharePoint site. 
• Second, the library and archives professions are communities are increasingly relying on URL (Uniform Resource Locator)s to point to proprietary or ephemeral information that may have been published briefly and disappeared quickly. If responsible SharePoint administrators have the capability to hold onto to these links for at least as long as their site is live, there may be an opportunity to collect these durable links into a more durable system. 
• Our InfoSociety is living an information amnesiac existence. It is important that our technological capabilities begins collaborating with the broader information governance institutions and provide assurance of information persistence.