Re: [apps-discuss] WGLC: draft-ietf-appsawg-about-uri-scheme-03.txt

[Barry Leiba <[e-mail]>]

> [Relatively] Minor Issues:
> I'm not so sure about use of RFC2119 language in the IANA Considerations
> section.  You're not really describing interoperability requirements with IANA.

I'm sure.  And it's my text -- this is one that Mykyta doesn't like.
The three MUSTs in there are not directed at IANA, but at people
writing new registrations.  They tell those people what their
registrations have to look like, and I wanted to use MUST to stress
that even though this is an FCFS policy, there are requirements
nonetheless.

> [Absolutely] Nits:
> All of these are either reductions of overly-wordy text or fixes to minor grammar nits, or both.
...
>        OLD
>                The concept of "about" URIs has been formed at the times when the
>                applications did not have the "friendly" user interface, in order to
>                provide an access to the aforementioned resources via typing the URIs
...
>        NEW
>                The concept of "about" URIs formed when applications did not have a
>                "friendly" user interface, to enable access to the aforementioned
>                resources by typing URIs into an address bar or similar feature.
...

Yeah, good luck with that.  I tried to convince Mykyta to tone the
rhetoric down in there, and he declined... and I didn't see it as
important enough to fight about.

Barry