Re: [apps-discuss] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-nottingham-http-browser-hints-01.txt

[Bjartur Thorlacius <[e-mail]>]

The current draft specifies that browser hints are a resource
identified by the URI "/.well-known/browser-hints" resolved relative
to an URI scheme, an authority section, and an empty path (assuming I
understand the draft correctly). I believe this to be harmful, as the
URI shares the authority section with other URIs, but is in fact named
by IETF (even though IETF doesn't maintain the resource).
Have you considered the possibility of passing this information as a
response to another method than GET, e.g. OPTIONS?
If creating a new method or reusing OPTIONS isn't an option (no pun
intended), could a new URI scheme be used, so that the hints are still
assigned an URI, without polluting the namespace supposedly given to
domain name registrants, and potentially clashing with existing or
future URIs.