- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 15:01:21 -0500
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Cc: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, www-tag@w3.org
On 2/9/06, Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com> wrote: >It would be better for the TAG to > write a finding that contradicts the long-held and foolish opinion > in the IETF that made-up name registries like URN are somehow better > than made-up name registries like DNS. We tried doing that[1] in the IETF, partly in response to uriMediaType-9[2], and though we had some support, we didn't drive it hard enough IMO. Actually, I'm supposed to upgrade it to address BCP 81 (aka RFC 3688[3]) shortly. Stay tuned. [1] http://www.markbaker.ca/2002/09/draft-connolly-w3c-accessible-registries-00.txt [2] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/issues.html#uriMediaType-9 [3] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3688.txt Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca
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