Re: [apps-discuss] Fwd: FW: New Version Notification for draft-kerwin-file-scheme-13.txt

[Sam Ruby <[e-mail]>]

On 01/04/2015 08:11 AM, Matthew Kerwin wrote:
>
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> On 2 January 2015 at 03:29, Sam Ruby <[e-mail]
> <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
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>     On 01/01/2015 11:17 AM, Graham Klyne wrote:
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>         For some reason, I didn't see Larry's original comment.  Probably
>         overwhelmed. But I've just looked at
>         https://specs.webplatform.org/__url/webspecs/develop/
>         <https://specs.webplatform.org/url/webspecs/develop/> and:
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>         (a) noticed the same issue that Matthew just noted about the
>         "big red box".
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>     I added that big red box.  I encourage you to follow the following
>     links:
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>     http://lists.w3.org/Archives/__Public/public-webapps/__2014OctDec/0526.html
>     <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2014OctDec/0526.html>
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>     https://mailarchive.ietf.org/__arch/msg/apps-discuss/__KyxFLw2FCwv7CSpiWAmLr8Ha7vc
>     <https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/apps-discuss/KyxFLw2FCwv7CSpiWAmLr8Ha7vc>
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>     It is my hope that by working together I can feel confident enough
>     to remove that red box.  As it is, I don't feel that either spec
>     matches widely deployed applications.
>
> So... are you advocating we make file: non-standard? That seems to be
> what both linked posts suggest. That would go with Dave Thaler's earlier
> proposition, that we move it to Historical, and get rid of it.
>
> Not exactly what I had in mind coming into this.

Some indeed are proposing essentially that.  I'm not:

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=27518#c1

What I will say is that if you drop normative statements concerning 
things that aren't interoperable (like hosts and windows paths), you end 
up with a rather small specification.

> --
>    Matthew Kerwin
> http://matthew.kerwin.net.au/

- Sam Ruby