Re: [apps-discuss] Review of draft-ietf-appsawg-file-scheme

[Graham Klyne <[e-mail]>]

Hi Dave, Matthew,

On 13/04/2016 09:28, Matthew Kerwin wrote:
>> The draft began as an individual effort, in June 2013, went through many
>> >revisions, and was adopted by AppsAWG in January 2015, and has had a number
>> >of revisions.  I note a 9/26/2014 (pre-AppsAWG) comment from Daniel
>> >Stenberg:
>> >
>> >      "I would rather have a new spec straighten up and tighten the
>> >      language somewhat so that we can get a stricter interpretation of
>> >      how afile://  is supposed to work."
>> >
>> >which, in spite of the many document revisions, unfortunately matches my
>> >own assessment of the current draft.
>> >
>> >
> This is a surprise, since this comment from Daniel was what triggered the
> complete restructure of the draft into its current form (with a relatively
> short normative body, and a bunch of informational stuff in appendices.)

This is my perception too.  My take is that the main body of the document does 
now cover core material that can be followed quite strictly.

But because of file:'s long history and accretions, it seemed helpful to have 
*informative* material describing variations that might be in the wild - I think 
moving these to the appendixes and clearly marking these as informative keeps 
them clearly separated from the core material about how it should be used.

#g
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