- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:24:17 +0200
- To: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
- CC: David Singer <singer@apple.com>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On 02.09.2010 22:13, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > ... > On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Julian Reschke<julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: >> I agree that some registries are not complete. I disagree that it's >> necessarily the IANA's fault. The SVG issue is a nice example for that. > > Whose fault it is is entirely irrelevant for our purposes. If the > IANA registry were hard to use because its servers went down on a > monthly basis due to being struck by meteors because a former IANA > executive was the subject of a gypsy curse, it would still be hard to > use, and we would want to look for alternatives. That it's not their > fault is no compensation for the fact that it doesn't work. > ... It *does* work, but it requires people to actually attempt the registration, and potentially fix problems with the registration. That is a *feature*. Best regards, Julian
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