Re: Contacts API updates

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org>wrote:

> Le jeudi 13 janvier 2011 à 10:25 +0100, Rich Tibbett a écrit :

>         >  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/uri/2010Feb/0058.html
> >         >
> >         > Disappointed that this was dropped as it seems we have
> >         inconsistency in the browser implementation of data URI
> >         processing. It would be good for the W3C URI group to clarify
> >         the intended behaviour of this since, at the very least,
> >         browsers should handle the results in a similar way (and I'd
> >         suggest Opera and Firefox as good references for how it should
> >         work).
> >
> >
> >         I agree this is a low hanging fruit that has demand and use
> >         beyond this group.
> >
> >
> > Does someone in this group also work in the URI Coordination Group?
> > Could we bump this discussion?
>
> Note that the URI coordination group no longer exists, even though the
> public mailing list there is still open.
>
> That said, the data: URIs are more in the realm of the IETF, since the
> data: scheme is defined by RFC 2397:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2397
>
> I think the best way forward would be to re-start a thread on uri@w3.org
> copying the participating to the previous thread to ask if this went
> anywhere, and maybe offer to help bringing this to the relevant RFC. Any
> volunteer?
>

I just bumped the original thread on the URI coordination mailing list:

  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/uri/2011Jan/0039.html

Will wait for a response before proceeding further.

- Rich