Re: Payment Method Identifiers

Adrian Bateman <adrianba@microsoft.com>, 2016-05-04 15:39 +0000:
> Archived-At: <http://www.w3.org/mid/CY1PR03MB14058E6396A639F21647300BD37B0@CY1PR03MB1405.namprd03.prod.outlook.com>
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> ·        For now, we are only discussing these strings as identifiers. In
> the future, though, we will no doubt discuss what resources the URLs
> might point to. If we use the relative URL approach that I proposed in
> Option 1a then this potentially puts a lot of network load on whoever
> hosts the base URL.
> 
> This was a problem in the past when W3C hosted DTDs and XML namespace
> schema (in the past, Microsoft’s network was regularly rate limited to
> w3.org because of errant software running on machines behind our proxies
> that was frequently downloading schema definitions).

Yeah, if the WG decision ends up being that we want to use URLs for this,
then as a group we are also also going to need to consider what domain
names to use for them other than w3.org domains.

Because if the group proposes to use w3.org URLs, I will be obligated to
personally strongly recommend to the W3C Director to not allow that, and I am
confident that the W3C systems team will strongly support that recommendation.

See https://www.w3.org/blog/systeam/2008/02/08/w3c_s_excessive_dtd_traffic/
for the reason why. I can imagine that others might suggest ways we could
mitigate a similar problem in this case, but I think the response is going
to be that the best way to avoid is to not use w3.org URLs for anything
like this to begin with.

  —Mike

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