Re: [Uri-review] [uri-review] Review Request for Icon URI Scheme

Hi,

For the 'file:' URI scheme, RFC 1738 *is* the correct normative reference.

Note that RFC 1738 is NOT obsoleted but is only updated by RFC 3986
- its current status is Proposed Standard, according to the RFC Index at:

  http://www.ietf.org/download/rfc-index.txt

The ABNF for the 'file:' URI scheme is only specified in RFC 1738 (and a
5-year-old expired ID by Paul Hoffman).

The 'file:' URI scheme is ubiquitously supported (*not* in an interoperable
fashion) by web browsers and operating systems.  The lack of a modern
reference RFC is a sore point for many standards developers.

Cheers,
- Ira

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On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 05.04.2010 17:12, Pierre-Antoine LaFayette wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone!
>>
>> I've put together a draft document for an icon URI scheme, used for
>> displaying platform specific icons in web pages, that I would like to
>> get some feedback on.
>>
>>
>> http://draft-icon-uri-scheme.googlecode.com/hg/draft-lafayette-icon-uri-scheme-00.html.
>>
>> Discussion of this scheme has been going on in the public-webapps@w3.org
>> <mailto:public-webapps@w3.org> mailing list:
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/public-webapps@w3.org/msg07377.html
>>
>> Thanks.
>> ...
>
> Nit: you really shouldn't have a normative reference to an obsoleted spec
> (RFC 1738).
>
> Best regards, Julian
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