- From: Jonathan A Rees <rees@mumble.net>
- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:34:02 -0400
- To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
Fragment identifier syntax is an interesting intermediate point between specification sequences capturing revisions to formats over time, and registries capturing namespace growth over time. To me these two phenomena are very similar. I wonder if W3C (or the TAG) could take on a commitment to "register" new fragment id syntaxes as they get churned out, and create a central place where anyone can go to get (or deliver) the latest scoop on fragid syntax and semantics? It really looks like a registry problem to me. Remember there will be a steady stream of fragid "innovations" as time goes on. It doesn't look like IETF is necessarily the right place to do this. From the RFC 3986 point of view the fragid syntax registry would look like an option to which media types could opt in; to W3C it would be a clearinghouse that would be useful for avoiding collisions between W3C registered media types (and any others that cared to play along). That is, it would not have to represent any "incursion" into 3986's authority. The registry would be seeded with ncnames, xpointer, media fragments, and maybe a few others like #!. It could be used to coordinate all kinds of efforts (or avoid all kinds of collisions), if anyone cared to use it. It could be implemented as a Recommendation series, as a curated IANA-like registry, or as something more lightweight such as a wiki. Maybe too expensive, or not useful enough, I don't know. Just thinking aloud. Jonathan
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