RE: non-IETF tree URI scheme draft

Hi Ted,

I like your idea as originally floated:
- IANA assigns an 'orgname' (preferred source being an
  existing 'vnd.orgname' arc in the MIME registry).
- First come, first served for 'orgname'.

I do not like Larry Masinter's apparent suggestion
(perhaps I'm misreading??) that we should break
the existing rules in RFC 2717, which are that new 
top-level trees (non-IETF) MUST be unique and MUST be 
followed by a hyphen-dash before the remainder of the 
URI scheme name.

Cheers,
- Ira 

Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839
phone: +1-906-494-2434
email: imcdonald@sharplabs.com

-----Original Message-----
From: hardie@qualcomm.com [mailto:hardie@qualcomm.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 2:04 PM
To: uri@w3.org
Subject: Re: non-IETF tree URI scheme draft



> >  The IANA would then construct and assign a URI scheme of the form:
> > orgname-schemename.
>
>So 'info' would be 'niso-info'?  'doi' would be 'idf-doi'?
>
>Is the intention that if for example Mount Saint Mary's College came up
with
>an 'info' scheme it wanted registered, them there would be a 'clmsm-info'
>scheme?
>
>--Ray

That's the basic idea; niso-info: and idf-doi:.  This would allow for
the gnome folks (who are apparently already using info: as well,
according to a previous note) to use gnome-info: without collision,
but wouldn't require any more complex decoration.

Obviously, you still have the "two NISOs" problem, but that seems to
be something that can be managed without adding extra complexity to
avoid it.
			regards,
					Ted Hardi

Received on Wednesday, 12 November 2003 16:01:26 UTC