- From: Harry Halpin <hhalpin@ibiblio.org>
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:46:32 -0400
- To: Brian Smith <brian@briansmith.org>
- Cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Brian Smith wrote: > Harry Halpin wrote: > >> [snip] >> > > Why don't you just create a new HTTP header and register it? The effort > to register a new HTTP header would be the same as the effort to > register a new link relation for the "Link:" header. Plus, you wouldn't > have to wait for "Link:" to become standardized. > > - Brian > > Link+rel with URIs Headers and Link+Profile Headers are a decentralized solution to this problem (i.e. would not require a new link relation to be standardized at all, and in the future). We'd rather have one good decentralized way of using the Link header be part of HTTP than have to register a new HTTP header for every technology :) Perhaps that is just my preference for URI-based extensibility and decentralization. However, I do think it makes more sense long-term. -- -harry Harry Halpin, University of Edinburgh http://www.ibiblio.org/hhalpin 6B522426
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