Re: Status of RFC 1738 -- 'ftp' URI scheme

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 8:18 AM, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:

> Charles Lindsey scripsit:
>
> > Perhaps this is a good time to point out (which I omitted to do earlier)
> > that the news and nntp schemes have now een published as RFC 5538, so
> > when this ftp scheme is finished perhaps we can finally put RFC 1738 to
> > bed.
>
> Has the file scheme become a separate RFC at last?
>
> --
>
> Unfortunately no - IANA URI Schemes registry says RFC 1738 and this I-D
expired 5 years ago <draft-hoffman-file-uri-03.txt>.

Warts and all, an RFC for file URI is sorely needed IMHO.

Cheers,
- Ira