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Re: [Http-well-known] Do we really want to define free

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Tue, 22 May 2018 00:21 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Http-well-known] Do we really want to define free
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> On 14 May 2018, at 11:12 pm, Cullen Jennings <fluffy@iii.ca> wrote:
> 
> 
> Thank you for making progress on this draft. 
> 
> One question I had related to the text that says 
> 
> “Registrations MUST reference a freely available, stable specification.”
> 
> In other documents, people have argued for that but that means that 3GPP (and others) would not be able to use the mechanism which seems bad. 
> 
> In the name of broad use and getting done, I would prefer to just use "Specification Required" from RFC 5226. 

8126 :)

> 
> But if we don’t do that, we better specify what we mean by “free” in this context. 

The intent is to lower this barrier, not raise it. 3GPP would certainly qualify. 

Personally, I think a spec on a site run by any organisation -- open source project, company, foundation, etc. -- would be fine too.

I'm a bit less comfortable with using a personal site -- but of course we can always update the registration, and there are things like archive.org.

I also think that this includes WHATWG specs, despite their "living standard " policy.

Re-reading 8126, yes I think Specification Required would suffice.

Cheers,


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