- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 13:57:32 -0400 (EDT)
- To: robla@real.com (Rob Lanphier)
- Cc: uri@w3.org
> There's nothing wrong with there being a well-known location for IANA > URLs. However, many mechanisms defined by the W3C rely on URIs as a means > of expressing registry information (SMIL systemComponent is the one I'm > primarily interested in, but I understand CC/PP has a similar concern). In > order to have interoperability between implementations, both > implementations need to implement the *same* scheme. Redirects are *not* > acceptable. Wouldn't that depend on the type of redirect? A 301 means a firm "The requested resource has been assigned a new permanent URI [...]", whereas a 302 means a softer "The requested resource resides temporarily under a different URI." I suggest that a 301 redirect should mean exactly what you suggest redirects should not mean. Anyhow, I'm all for moving media type URLs under iana.org. If this is done soon, I think we can forgo needing redirects to be set up, as I'm not aware of any deployed software that uses the ISI URLs. MB
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