diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst b/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst
index 61808596a55..6298f1396ae 100644
--- a/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ If the XML input has `namespaces
 with prefixes in the form ``prefix:sometag`` get expanded to
 ``{uri}sometag`` where the *prefix* is replaced by the full *URI*.
 Also, if there is a `default namespace
-<https://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-names-20060816/#defaulting>`__,
+<https://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names/#defaulting>`__,
 that full URI gets prepended to all of the non-prefixed tags.
 
 Here is an XML example that incorporates two namespaces, one with the
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-02-10-15-16-04.bpo-32800.FyrqCk.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-02-10-15-16-04.bpo-32800.FyrqCk.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..eac1107bba7
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@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Update link to w3c doc for xml default namespaces.