- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 14:35:01 -0400
- To: www-tag@w3.org, uri@w3.org
- Cc: Ted Hardie <hardie@qualcomm.com>, iesg@ietf.org, Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>, Tony Hansen<tony+urireg@maillennium.att.com>, uri@w3.org
In late August the TAG provided a last call comment [1] on then-proposed RFC2717bis/RFC2718bis [2]. In a recent note [3] to uri@w3.org, Larry Masinter points out that in response to (unspecified) last call comments, a new draft has been prepared [4], and I note at least one set of changes that appear to be responsive to the TAG's concerns: <original href="http://ietfreport.isoc.org/all-ids/draft-hansen-2717bis-2718bis-uri-guidelines-05.txt"> 2.1 Demonstratable, new, long-lived utility Because URI schemes constitute a single, global namespace, the unbounded registration of new schemes is harmful to the Internet community. For this reason, new URI schemes SHOULD have clear utility to the broad Internet community, beyond that available with already registered URI schemes. </original> <revised href="http://ietfreport.isoc.org/all-ids/draft-hansen-2717bis-2718bis-uri-guidelines-06.txt"> 2.1. Demonstratable, new, long-lived utility The use and deployment of new URI schemes in the Internet infrastructure is costly; some parts of URI processing may be scheme-dependent, and deployed software already processes URIs of well-known schemes. Introducing a new URI scheme may require additional software, not only for client software and user agents but also in additional parts of the network infrastructure (gateways, proxies, caches).[13] (W3C Technical Architecture Group, "Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One," December 2004.). URI schemes constitute a single, global namespace; it is desirable to avoid contention over use of short, mneumonic scheme names. For these reasons, the unbounded registration of new schemes is harmful. New URI schemes SHOULD have clear utility to the broad Internet community, beyond that available with already registered URI schemes. </revised> Speaking for myself as opposed to for the TAG as a whole, I find this to be exactly what I was hoping we'd see. This seems to me a completely satisfactory response to the TAG's request. Thank you to Larry and the other authors for the prompt and careful attention to these concerns. Noah [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2005Aug/0014.html [2] http://ietfreport.isoc.org/all-ids/draft-hansen-2717bis-2718bis-uri-guidelines-05.txt [3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/uri/2005Oct/0004.html [4] http://ietfreport.isoc.org/all-ids/draft-hansen-2717bis-2718bis-uri-guidelines-05.txt -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 --------------------------------------
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