Re: [apps-discuss] I-D Action: draft-ietf-appsawg-about-uri-scheme-00.txt

[Frank Ellermann <[e-mail]>]

On 18 October 2011 08:09, Jiankang YAO wrote:

>  Pls kindly help to review it before 25 Oct.

Section 2.1:
Please replace 'segment' by '*pchar' and import pchar
instead of segment from STD 66.  The * indicates the
main point "zero or more" (unlike <segment-nz>), and
pchar is for me clearer than segment:  Above all it's
none of the five terms for slightly different paths.

The SPU gibberish is just ugly, please replace it by
"registered token" or similar.  Ditto SPT.  Get rid
of almost all MUSTard in this perfectly harmless URI
scheme, only about:blank deserves a MUST.

For more than six months I try to get about:about in
this draft, nothing happened.  Instead there are tons
of obscure terms (SPU, SPT), a pointless registry for
one word (blank), and additional tons of MUSTs and
MUST NOTs dealing with something that doesn't exist.

This draft is now in the worst state for this year,
that is not very encouraging for this trivial task.

Claiming that there are no about: IRIs makes no sense
as soon as there is an <about-query>, cf. RFC 3987
<iquery> and <ifragment>.

-Frank