Re: [apps-discuss] Call for Adoption: draft-kerwin-file-scheme

["Murray S. Kucherawy" <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Graham Klyne <[e-mail]> wrote:

> On 01/01/2015 17:20, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
>
>>
>> Can I take this to mean that as wide adoption increases, your expectation
>> of community discussion and possibly even RFC publication also increase?
>> Such guidance would be useful in deciding which way to guide these thing
>> in
>> the future, especially since there's been such a surge in them lately.
>>
>
> Murray,
>
> I don't think adoption is in question (if I understand correctly what you
> mean by "adoption").  I come across file: URIs quite often, if (by their
> nature) in localized contexts.  The main concern I see is that past
> attempts to better document the file: URI scheme have failed to coalesce
> sufficient consensus about what such a document should say (and not say).
> [...]
>

Actually, my question was more general, and not specific to this particular
document.  I'll rephrase:

Can I take this to mean that, as wide adoption of a given a scheme (or
media type, though I know that's not what you review) increases, your
expectation of community discussion and possibly even RFC publication
defining that scheme also increases?

-MSK