Re: draft-ietf-url-process-00
Chris Newman (Chris.Newman@innosoft.com)
Tue, 21 Jan 1997 15:37:19 -0800 (PST)
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 15:37:19 -0800 (PST)
From: Chris Newman <Chris.Newman@innosoft.com>
Subject: Re: draft-ietf-url-process-00
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970121165321.007c74b0@hq.lcs.mit.edu>
To: IETF URI list <uri@bunyip.com>
Message-Id: <Pine.SOL.3.95.970121153311.23749D-100000@eleanor.innosoft.com>
> > URL schemes will have either a standards track RFC, or else they
> > will be a registration at IANA. where include the whole draft. URL
> > schemes will have a review panel, appointed by IETF AD, who may not
> > reject a URL scheme but who may provide a 2 sentence recommendation
> > about the use of the URL scheme. Conflicting registrations are
> > possible for non-standard URL schemes, and the order in the IANA
> > list of conflicting registrations will be determined by a random
> > number generator.
I like the "accept everything but damn the bad ones" paradigm, but
conflicting registrations should be first-come-first-serve. One of the
two primary purposes of a registry is to prevent incompatible uses of the
same string.