Re: URI scheme approval process

[I'm not sure why you wrote to uri-review-request@ietf.org,
but I'm leaving it there.]

On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 08:29, Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress wrote:
> My appologies if I should know the answers to these questions:
> 
> 1. http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes, this is an
> *authoritative* list of *approved* URI schemes, yes?

Yes, I believe so.

> 2.  is there an *authoritiative* procedure by which a proposed scheme
> is added to this list?

This seems to be IETF Best Current Practice:

  "Registration Procedures for URL Scheme Names"
  http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2717.txt

I don't think there's anything more authoritative.

> 3. Is there an *authoritiative* list of *proposed* schemes that are
> undergoing this approval process?

No; at least: I'm not aware of one.

> Thank you, and again my appologies, as I should probably know the
> answers to these questions, but I don't.
> 
> --Ray
-- 
Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/

Received on Monday, 24 May 2004 11:04:54 UTC