[apps-discuss] WEIRDS WG report

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

WEIRDS met today and discussed what we believe are its remaining issues.

The group discussed the outcome of a design team meeting that tried to
address two issues at once: the issue an imposed URI structure
(draft-nottingham-uri-get-off-my-lawn) and the methodology by which to find
an authoritative registry that can further delegate.  Both issues are being
addressed by allowing a key-value table that supports longest-match lookups
resulting in  URI templates that are then used to construct a query that
will either return an answer or a redirection.  The WG will continue this
discussion on its mailing list and select a path forward.  Participants
were asked to open tracker items for any remaining issues on the open
documents (query, redirection, bootstrapping) so they can be driven to
resolution.

The discussion of the publication of the table (IANA being the logical
point) ventured into the complications that come with the IETF creating
domain registries and imposing policies potentially outside of its
purview.  This issue has not been completely resolved but we believe there
are ways forward through careful crafting of the language and keeping the
IANA section to an absolute minimum.

Finally, a report was given of interoperability tests performed prior to
the IETF meeting.  No specification issues were discovered and a fair
number of server as well as client implementations interoperate.  A couple
of issues were identified and we are at or close to consensus on resolution.

The chairs believe that the work of the group may conclude between now and
Toronto, so this may have been our final meeting.

-MSK and Olaf, co-chairs, WEIRDS