Re: [Geojson] Requests for comments on GeoJSON Events draft

[Erik Wilde <[e-mail]>]

hello sean.

On 2017-01-04 15:11, Sean Gillies wrote:
> For an application to find out what "where" means, I think we need
> either a registry or JSON-LD (which is sort of like a framework for
> using the web as a registry, also entailing a lot of other things). I'm
> more inclined to a registry. I think we got the sense that adding a
> registry to the GeoJSON I-D was not going to reach consensus and now we
> need to add it on after the fact, in a grassroots way. Are there other
> registries we can piggyback on or would we need to create a new site for
> this?

one possibility would be to establish an IANA one via a separate RFC. 
this could be done, would update the GeoJSON RFC, and would allow us to 
use IANA's registry infrastructure. IANA manages ~2000 registries and 
they have a well-defined process how to establish and manage them.

another possibility is to set up our own registry. that would outside 
the RFC and thus would be more informal than the IANA route. i have been 
toying with registry management for a while and so far never got past 
some initial ideas and experiments. i'd be more than happy to get some 
concrete requirements from GeoJSON and use that as an incentive to put 
more effort into this: https://github.com/dret/RegMan

cheers,

dret.

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