Re: [apps-discuss] The state of 'afs' URi scheme

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Mon, 31 January 2011 15:08 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] The state of 'afs' URi scheme
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On 31.01.2011 15:59, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> ...
> Mykyta, you are approximately the only person who seems to have a
> problem understanding that standards organizations like the IETF
> sometimes don't follow through on what they thought were good ideas and
> sometimes don't document that. Your response is to generate many useless
> efforts to clean up the IETF specs instead of just doing what everyone
> else does, which is to ask a question, find the answer, and move on. It
> feels like you are wasting lots of people's time for the benefit of no
> one other than maybe yourself. (If there are others who feel that
> Mykyta's efforts are worth our time, by all means speak up and I'm happy
> to back down here.)
> ...

+1

Speaking of which: there are URI schemes that *are* in use and should be 
registered (independently how "bad" we think they are); candidates are 
"itms" and "ical", which will probably require collaboration from Apple.

Best regards, Julian