- From: Stefan Eissing <stefan.eissing@greenbytes.de>
- Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 14:47:41 +0200
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, www-tag@w3.org
This is so twenty century... I respect the IETF and everyting. However, if you need a good exmaple of a tech organisation that has totally fallen behind current web use, look no further. //Stefan Am 08.10.2008 um 13:50 schrieb Julian Reschke: > > From the meeting minutes: > >> DC:How does IANA service this? A 200 response would imply this is >> an information resource >> ... So I suggested we should get them to do the 303 redirect >> JR: I spoke to someone at IETF, and I think they are unaware of >> the issue and are waiting to hear from us > > My understanding is that (as of now) the IANA is unwilling to > guarantee *anything* about how they serve web content. I'd be > surprised if they cared about the fine points of the 303 status > code; for now they are even discouraging use of the registration > URLs in specifications (<http://tools.ietf.org/html/ > rfc5226#section-5.1>): > > Note 2: When referring to an existing registry, providing a > URL > to precisely identify the registry is helpful. Such URLs, > however, should usually be removed from the RFC prior to final > publication, since IANA URLs are not guaranteed to be > stable in > the future. In cases where it is important to include a > URL in > the document, IANA should concur on its inclusion. > > BR, Julian > > > -- <green/>bytes GmbH, Hafenweg 16, D-48155 Münster, Germany Amtsgericht Münster: HRB5782
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