- From: Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:46:28 -0000
- To: uri@w3.org
- Cc: "Paul Hoffman" <phoffman@imc.org>
The question has arisen of whether, with the publication of the nntp/news schemes, RFC 1738 can finally be delcared obsolete. Looking at the list of schemes defined therein, it appears that most of them have been dealt with by new RFCs, or have been declared historic. According to IANA, there would still remain just two schemes not yet disposed of, namely 'file' and 'ftp'. It has been suggested that 'file' is so ambiguous, with no consensus on how the clean it up, that it may as well be abandoned. OTOH, most browsers support it, at least for accessing resources on the localhost, and I personally find it quite useful. It seems that 'ftp' really needs a new RFC, even if it merely copies the text out of 1738. What are the views of this list as to whether these schemes should now be properly codified (and volunteers to do it)? And should the final obsoleting of 1738 be held back until that has been done? When it is finally ready to go, declaring it as 'historic' might well be in order. -- Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing------------------------ Tel: +44 161 436 6131 Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl Email: chl@clerew.man.ac.uk Snail: 5 Clerewood Ave, CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K. PGP: 2C15F1A9 Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5
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