- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:08:49 +0100
- To: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- CC: Joseph A Holsten <joseph@josephholsten.com>, public-html <public-html@w3.org>, URI <uri@w3.org>, uri-review@ietf.org
Julian Reschke wrote: > Lachlan Hunt wrote: >> ... >> (Sorry for the late reply, it seems I forgot to respond earlier.) >> >> The purpose of reserving a URI is so that other specifications can't >> suddenly redefine the URI to return something that is unneeded or >> unwanted by the spec that originally reserved it. The main use is for >> about:legacy-compat, which needs to be reserved in HTML5, but which >> should never be formally defined as resolvable to anything specific. >> >> We don't want, for example, another specificaiton in the future >> suddenly defining that about:legacy-compat should resolve to some sort >> of unofficial HTML5 DTD. But we still want to allow browsers to >> return something useful to a user that enters it into their address >> bar. e.g. Some sort of informative page explaining why the URI can be >> used in the DOCTYPE, which would be more useful and user friendly than >> the error or blank page that browsers return today. >> >> Finally, can you please give an update on when you will be publishing >> a new draft, and continuing with the URI registration process? >> ... > > Joseph, Lachlan, any news on this? > ... I note that draft-holsten-about-uri-scheme-02 was submitted six months ago. We do not seem to make progress. Joseph, Lachlan, are you still interested to finish this? Otherwise, this should get a new editor. Best regards, Julian
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