- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:38:49 +0100
- To: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- CC: Joseph A Holsten <joseph@josephholsten.com>, public-html <public-html@w3.org>, URI <uri@w3.org>, uri-review@ietf.org
Lachlan Hunt wrote: > ... > (Sorry for the late reply, it seems I forgot to respond earlier.) > > The purpose of reserving a URI is so that other specifications can't > suddenly redefine the URI to return something that is unneeded or > unwanted by the spec that originally reserved it. The main use is for > about:legacy-compat, which needs to be reserved in HTML5, but which > should never be formally defined as resolvable to anything specific. > > We don't want, for example, another specificaiton in the future suddenly > defining that about:legacy-compat should resolve to some sort of > unofficial HTML5 DTD. But we still want to allow browsers to return > something useful to a user that enters it into their address bar. e.g. > Some sort of informative page explaining why the URI can be used in the > DOCTYPE, which would be more useful and user friendly than the error or > blank page that browsers return today. > > Finally, can you please give an update on when you will be publishing a > new draft, and continuing with the URI registration process? > ... Joseph, Lachlan, any news on this? Best regards, Julian
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