Re: Link Header draft

Am 12.02.2007 um 16:57 schrieb Anne van Kesteren:

> On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:56:31 +0100, Stefan Eissing  
> <stefan.eissing@greenbytes.de> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:58:35 +0100, Mark Nottingham  
>>> <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
>>>> Oh - and there's also already an Atom link relations IANA  
>>>> registry, so it would require a certain amount of coordination.
>>>>
>>>> What do others think? Should there be a single, flat link  
>>>> relation registry?
>>>
>>> http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/RelExtensions
>>
>> It makes sense to keep a list at a known, stable location, which  
>> then references the defining documents/standards.
>
> Isn't that exactly what the link above does? (It's not entirely  
> clear to me, as you don't elaborate much on "known", "stable  
> location" etc.)

I personally, would open a wikipedia article on the topic and keep  
all information and references there. Nothing against whatwg, but I  
think wikipedia is more stable (whatever I mean with that).

But it is not my decision. Given the choice, I would prefer a FCFS  
IANA page to no register at all.

>
>> Making a FCFS IANA as in http://www.iana.org/assignments/http- 
>> parameters would work, although it looks a bit twentycentury.
>
> One idea Ian Hickson had would be to set up a web service somewhere  
> on whatwg.org which people could use to add new values, which  
> validators could use to update their list, etc.

I think this is good. This could serve as a write-cache and enhanced  
service/linking etc.

However I assume that the IESG would like to have a registry  
somewhere after whatwg has done its excellent work and that  
whatwg.org server dissolves into a pink cloud of happiness.

Cheers,

Stefan

Received on Monday, 12 February 2007 17:44:41 UTC