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

[Balazs Lengyel <[e-mail]>]

Hello,
In Netconf we will be using quite a bit of URIs soon. IF Netconf becomes the roaring success we 
believe in :-) we will use one URI for every standard management model (kind of MIB).
Balazs

Mark Nottingham wrote:
> 
> Details:
>   http://www.w3.org/blog/systeam/2008/02/08/w3c_s_excessive_dtd_traffic
> 
> Personally, if I had to serve this traffic, I'd put a highly-concurrent 
> Web server (e.g., Lighttpd) in place and build a one-second+ delay into 
> serving those responses. Fine for human use, but will motivate software 
> authors to find out why things suddenly got so slow...
> 
> Beyond that, question: how many IETF specs use a namespace URI as the 
> primary means of identifying the format/protocol? As opposed to a media 
> type. My suspicion is that the number is fairly small. If that's the 
> case, I wonder if there's a need for these URIs to be resolvable.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> On 19/02/2008, at 6:01 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
> 
>> Lisa Dusseault wrote:
>>> 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.
>>> ...
>>
>> That was about DTDs (fetched by XML parsers), not namespace documents.
>>
>> BR, Julian
> 
> 
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> Mark Nottingham     http://www.mnot.net/
> 

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