Re: [dispatch] Registration of "hxxp" URI scheme

It sounds like this has dispatched itself so from a chair point of view, I don't think we need to do much more here. Let us know if you think we need to so something else.

Thanks, Cullen (one of the chairs)

> On May 9, 2017, at 7:21 PM, John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
> 
> In article <20170510013932.GB21191@pepino> you write:
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>> Thanks John and Mark.
>> Fair enough. I've asked and received the provisional registration,
>> with the draft as reference. In case its needed, it can be upgraded
>> to permanent in the future.
> 
> You might as well grab hxxps too.
> 
> R's,
> John
> 
> 
> 
>> On 13:33 08/05, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>>> I think it's worth having a registry entry if this is widespread practice, if only to prevent accidental use.
>>> 
>>> I agree that a provisional registration would do that. 
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 6 May 2017, at 2:17 am, John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> In article <20170505155326.GH14760@vulcano.intra.nic.cl> you write:
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>>>>> Dear dispatch WG.
>>>>> I recently realized there's no registration for the "hxxp"
>>>>> scheme in the IANA table. This scheme had become a de-facto
>>>>> standard from many years, inside the security community,
>>>>> to obfuscate malicious urls. I think it deserves to be
>>>>> registered for block and documentation matters.
>>>> 
>>>> Since the whole point of hxxp is to prevent interoperation, I don't
>>>> understand what problem a permanent registration would solve.  It
>>>> doesn't seem very likely that anyone would use those four letters to
>>>> mean anything else. but if you want a placeholder to prevent that, a
>>>> provisional FCFS registration would do the trick.
>>>> 
>>>> R's,
>>>> John
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