Re: URI scheme approval process

[fixed address to uri-review; one comment below]

At 10:04 04/05/24 -0500, Dan Connolly wrote:

>[I'm not sure why you wrote to uri-review-request@ietf.org,
>but I'm leaving it there.]
>
>On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 08:29, Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress wrote:
> > My appologies if I should know the answers to these questions:
> >
> > 1. http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes, this is an
> > *authoritative* list of *approved* URI schemes, yes?
>
>Yes, I believe so.
>
> > 2.  is there an *authoritiative* procedure by which a proposed scheme
> > is added to this list?
>
>This seems to be IETF Best Current Practice:
>
>   "Registration Procedures for URL Scheme Names"
>   http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2717.txt
>
>I don't think there's anything more authoritative.
>
> > 3. Is there an *authoritiative* list of *proposed* schemes that are
> > undergoing this approval process?
>
>No; at least: I'm not aware of one.

I think what would come closest to this is the IETF draft tracker at
https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/pidtracker.cgi. But of course
it's tough to find the drafts that relate to URI scheme proposals
in there.

Regards,    Martin.


> > Thank you, and again my appologies, as I should probably know the
> > answers to these questions, but I don't.
> >
> > --Ray
>--
>Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/

Received on Tuesday, 25 May 2004 02:17:06 UTC