Re: [link-relations] [opensearch:393] Registering the 'search' link relation type

If the designated experts are comfortable with that approach — and it sounds
like you might be, otherwise you wouldn't have asked — I'd personally prefer
that, considering the 'search' relation name is used in multiple contexts
for the same purpose, not exclusively HTML(5).

Thanks for asking,

-DeWitt

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:

> Thanks, DeWitt.
>
> One thing; I'm wondering if it makes more sense to list the OpenSearch link
> directly as the reference, rather than going through the HTML5 one.
>
> E.g., the registration could be:
>
> Relation Name:
>  search
>
> Description:
>  Gives a link to a resource that can be used to search through
>  the current document and its related pages.
>
> Reference:
>
> http://www.opensearch.org/Specifications/OpenSearch/1.1#Autodiscovery_in_HTML.2FXHTML
>
> Notes:
>  See also: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/links.html#link-type-search
>
>
> Thoughts? Mike?
>
>
> On 03/11/2010, at 3:21 PM, DeWitt Clinton wrote:
>
> > No objection at all, (speaking as unofficial spec editor).  Very glad to
> see this happen, and thank you to Michael Smith and the W3C HTML WG for
> making the proposal.
> >
> > That URL is stable, and has not changed in several years, and we would of
> course be sure to preserve it with a redirect in the event anything ever
> moved.
> >
> > That said, the full URL appears truncated in the registration
> application.  It currently reads:
> >
> >
> http://www.opensearch.org/Specifications/OpenSearch/1.1#Autodiscovery_in_HTML.2FXH
> >
> > Should be:
> >
> >
> http://www.opensearch.org/Specifications/OpenSearch/1.1#Autodiscovery_in_HTML.2FXHTML
> >
> > Thanks, Mark!
> >
> > -DeWitt
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
> > Hello OpenSearchers,
> >
> > I'm acting as a Designated Expert for the IANA Link Relation Type
> registry, defined by RFC5988 <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5988>.
> >
> > We've had a request <http://paramsr.us/tracker/issue18> from the W3C
> HTML WG to register the 'search' link relation type.
> >
> > Since OpenSearch has defined the 'search' relation type, and HTML5 refers
> to your specification to define its semantics, we wanted to make sure this
> registration was OK with the OpenSearch community before proceeding. Do you
> have any objections to them doing so?
> >
> > Additionally, we (the Designated Experts) wanted to double-check with you
> that the reference they give is a) appropriate, and b) stable. I.e., it's
> not going to change gratuitously.
> >
> > We'd appreciate a response as soon as possible, so that we can proceed
> with the registration.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > --
> > Mark Nottingham   http://www.mnot.net/
> >
> >
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