Re: Status of Link header

Shane McCarron wrote:
> 
> Mark,
> 
> I think that you should defer to the spec at 
> http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/vocab for the definitive list of rel and 
> rev values.  That document is written in XHTML+RDFa and is maintained as 
> part of the W3C process for defining XHTML.
> ...

a) What's the registration process?

b) Why would it be a good idea to have relations between resources being 
defined specifically for one vocabulary? Shouldn't relation names be 
re-usable between HTML, XHTML, Atom, and other formats (*)?

BR, Julian

(*) for instance those that are not XML based and need the Link header 
to transport it