Re: [apps-discuss] I-D Action: draft-ietf-appsawg-file-scheme-07.txt

Hi everyone,

I've pushed out an -07 version of the file URI draft. It's substantially
different from 06, mostly in removing a bunch of text from the main body
(some of which is now located in appendices).

As mentioned, or at least hinted, in my email replies, I've adopted most of
the changes recommended by Dave Crocker and Graham Klyne in their reviews.
There are still a couple of 'fixmes' though:

* I haven't touched Dave's suggestion that I cut back the Encoding section.

* The Security Considerations mentions possible issues from case-sensitive
aliasing, but still hasn't got anything addressing Julian Reschke's advice
to include encoding/Unicode normalization.

* There are a couple of places in the text where the normativity of
statements isn't clear. These are marked by a "(?)"

* I'm not sure how to address Mark Nottingham's questions about fitting in
with WWW specs like FETCH, URL, and Origin.

Other than that, I personally feel like this is the best version of the
draft I've submitted. The main spec body is down to four pages (about 8
pages with headers and references), and it's really clear what is defined
(a normative syntax) and what is not (all the optional/non-standard stuff
in the appendices.)

I think it's definitely a substantial enough change to warrant being put
back to WGLC.

Further reviews are, as always, appreciated. Assuming no blockers emerge
I'll try to keep future changes very small and manageable.

Cheers

On 20 April 2016 at 15:23, <internet-drafts@ietf.org> wrote:

>
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
> directories.
> This draft is a work item of the ART Area General Applications Working
> Group of the IETF.
>
>         Title           : The file URI Scheme
>         Author          : Matthew Kerwin
>         Filename        : draft-ietf-appsawg-file-scheme-07.txt
>         Pages           : 19
>         Date            : 2016-04-19
>
> Abstract:
>    This document specifies the "file" Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)
>    scheme, obsoleting the definition in RFC 1738.
>
>    It defines a common syntax which is intended to interoperate across
>    the broad spectrum of existing usages.  At the same time it notes
>    some other current practices around the use of file URIs.
>
> Note to Readers (To be removed by the RFC Editor)
>
>    This draft should be discussed on the IETF Applications Area Working
>    Group discussion list <apps-discuss@ietf.org>.
>
>
> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-appsawg-file-scheme/
>
> There's also a htmlized version available at:
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-appsawg-file-scheme-07
>
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> https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-appsawg-file-scheme-07
>
>
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