Re: [apps-discuss] request to register 'describes' link relation (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wilde-describes-link-01)

[Barry Leiba <[e-mail]>]

> i tried sending this to barry only, but [e-mail] does not
> seem to be a valid email address, so i'll respond to the list and hope barry
> will get in trough the list somehow.

Grumble...
IEEE (computer.org is a forwarding service of the IEEE Computer
Society) has recently started using Postini for filtering, and that's
caused sporadic problems, wherein the Postini filtering servers appear
sometimes to fail to contact the IEEE address validation servers...
and Postini takes the failure to be able to validate the address as
meaning that the address is invalid, and bounces the message.  It only
happens sometimes, and they're not answering my messages asking when
it will be fixed (well, or maybe they are, and...).

In any case, I got this message both through the list and directly.

> thanks for the feedback. i guess i am still a bit confused about the
> process. my understanding was that the link-relations experts would provide
> feedback, and then it would be sponsored as an RFC. apparently, that's not
> how things are working.

I'm not entirely sure.  Theoretically, at least, they will approve
requests for which they are satisfied that the documentation will be
published as a stable, public specification.  Internet Drafts won't
necessarily be that.  Those that come through a working group are
pretty safe, but individual submissions might or might not go
anywhere.

In practice, I don't know whether Mark and Julian are looking for an
AD sponsor before approving, or simply making their approval
contingent on the publication of the document (I'll have to ask them).
 Anyway, if you have an AD sponsor first (which you now do), we have
that covered.

> also, please be advised that another similar request
> was sent to the link-relations and apps-discuss experts very recently
> (http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/apps-discuss/current/msg07356.html)
...
> (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wilde-profile-link-03)

Yes, I'm happy to sponsor that one as well, and, yes, please also make
that Informational after we get feedback from the link-relations list
and the DEs.

I'll change the state of both document to Publication Requested, and
we can start the process.

Barry