Re: [link-relations] NEW RELATION REQUEST: Relation name: "last"

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

On 02.03.2011 15:00, Tim Williams wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Julian Reschke<[e-mail]>  wrote:
>> On 02.09.2010 10:20, Michael(tm) Smith wrote:
>>>
>>> Relation Name:
>>>    last
>>>
>>> Description:
>>>    Indicates that the current document is a part of a series, and
>>>    that the last document in the series is the referenced document.
>>>
>>> Reference:
>>>    http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/links.html#link-type-last
>>>
>>> Notes:
>>>    Template to be added to W3C HTML5 specification before
>>>    publication of next Working Draft
>>
>>
>> This relation was removed from HTML5 as of today
>> (<http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5923&to=5924>).
>>
>> I therefore propose to set the status to "declined".
>
> What are the other options here?  This relation is important (well, to
> me at least) - among other things, I use it a great deal in paging.
> Are the options to either get another standard to define it or
> introduce it independent of a media type?

I should have mentioned that these four were "update" requests; that is, 
they are already in the link relations registry; see 
<http://www.iana.org/assignments/link-relations/link-relations.xml>.

So the only effect is that we're not going to change the registrations 
we already have.

Best regards, Julian