Re: [web-bluetooth] API to lookup known service & GATT descriptions: suggestion #944 (#573)

As discussed in #535 it appears that the Bluetooth SIG has stopped maintaining this mapping in an easily machine-readable format. We've added a snapshot of the last time this mapping was more easily available to https://github.com/WebBluetoothCG/registries however I think in generally we want to avoid encouraging developers to use these names in favor of the unambiguous UUIDs.

So for your purposes (just understanding what a UUID is) I think the new mapping table we've provided is useful but exposing this through the API itself would be counter to our goals and also not particularly useful since the permission model requires an application to declare upfront the service UUIDs it is requesting access to and so would not encounter a situation in which it needed to be able to construct a human-readable name for one it is unfamiliar with.

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