- From: Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org>
- Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 10:24:21 +0100
- To: Eric Hellman <eric@openly.com>
- Cc: Michael Mealling <michael@neonym.net>, uri@w3.org
At 17:45 07/10/03 -0400, Eric Hellman wrote: >looking further, I see that there was an "eastlake" draft that IETF seems >to have deep-sixed. I learned, tantalizingly, that Graham Klyne, Ted >Hardie and Michael Mealling did some work to perhaps create uris for iana >registered stuff, their draft is also expired by ietf, so I cannot >tell what they found. As a proponent of this approach, any blame failure to progress it must be placed at least partially at my door, not "the IETF". IETF is a volunteer organization without its own technical staff to do technical design work. So, mea culpa. My excuses are that (a) I was waiting for some other work to come to fruition [1], which was finally published a few months ago. (Hmmm: the IESG tracker thinks it's still in the RFC editor's queue.) (b) I am no longer in the same job, and have been occupied by many other things, so progressing this has not been high on my agenda. (c) In the specific case of content types, it's not clear to me whether this URN route or the more comprehensive draft by Eastlake [2] would be the way to go. I believe it would not be appropriate to have two different overlapping URI schemes if at all avoidable. Accordingly, I have not actually prepared a draft to place content types into the framework of [1], not am I aware that anyone else has done so. (Currently, I have work-in-progress drafts for CONNEG tags, language tags and RFC822 message headers for this framework, all of which I believe to be expired as Internet drafts. I may reheat these when [1] is finally published.) #g -- [1] ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3553.txt [2] Internet draft: draft-eastlake-cturi-05.txt, now expired. But Google will find some (maybe older versions) on the web. [3] https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/pidtracker.cgi Specifically, search for 'draft-mealling-iana-urn' yields: https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/pidtracker.cgi?command=search_list&search_job_owner=0&search_group_acronym=&search_status_id=&search_cur_state=&sub_state_id=6&search_filename=draft-mealling-iana-urn&search_rfcnumber=&search_area_acronym=&search_button=SEARCH ------------ Graham Klyne GK@NineByNine.org
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