Re: I-D Action:draft-duerst-iana-namespace-00.txt

Hi,

I'm adding IANA and Thomas Narten (author of IANA considerations  
docs) to this thread to get early IANA feedback about this idea.  It  
may well be a good idea, but we definitely want to think it through:

  - A registry for HTTP URLs in the IANA domain
    ... including a HTML or XML document hosted by IANA on its  
Website at the location specified in the registered URL
   ... which means that end-users and developers will use these URIs,  
perhaps very frequently

What do we know about the W3 experience hosting namespace URIs with  
actual documents at the URIs?  I've been hearing rumours lately about  
something like this causing expensive levels of traffic, but I can't  
recall the details.

Lisa

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> From: Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
> Date: February 18, 2008 3:39:31 AM PST
> To: discuss@ietf.org
> Subject: Fwd: I-D Action:draft-duerst-iana-namespace-00.txt
>
> Based on some earlier discussion on this list and some encouragement
> by Chris, Tim Bray and myself wrote a proposal for HTTP namespace
> URI registration with IANA. Comments appreciated.
>
> Regards,   Martin.
>
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>> Subject: I-D Action:draft-duerst-iana-namespace-00.txt
>> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:30:01 -0800 (PST)
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>> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts  
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>>       Title           : HTTP-based IETF Namespace URIs at IANA
>>       Author(s)       : M. Duerst, T. Bray
>>       Filename        : draft-duerst-iana-namespace-00.txt
>>       Pages           : 8
>>       Date            : 2008-02-18
>>
>> This document creates a registry and defines a procedure to allow
>> IETF specifications to register XML Namespace Names with IANA which
>> are HTTP URIs and thus potentially useful for looking up information
>> about the namespace.
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