Re: [urn] IANA repository Re: New Version Notification for draft-ietf-urnbis-rfc3406bis-urn-ns-reg-02.txt (fwd)

[Peter Saint-Andre <[e-mail]>]

On 3/25/12 3:07 PM, Marc Blanchet wrote:
> 
> Le 2012-03-25 à 14:59, Leslie Daigle a écrit :
> 
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is this point in the document:
>>
>>>  [[ NOTE: It would be preferable to restore the generic, most
>>>   universally supported (HTML) form of the registry be identified by an
>>>   implementation-neutral URL, as previously supported by IANA:
>>>   <http://www.iana.org/assignments/urn-namespaces>.  Yet, currently
>>>   this URI and similar forms all resolve to an XML version.
>>>   The content there should link to alternate forms (.xml, .txt), and
>>>   those alternate versions should indicate the *other* versions; i.e.,
>>>   where the .txt version (currently only available at ftp.IANA.ORG
>>> <http://ftp.IANA.ORG>)
>>>   also says, "This registry is also available in XML and plain text
>>>   formats.", it should better say: "This registry is also available in
>>>   HTML and XML formats."  Similarly, the XML form should point to the
>>>   HTML and plain text forms. ]]
>>
>>
>> actually a question for the URN document, or rather something for the
>> IESG/IAB to explain or take up with IANA?  I.e., it seems to me that
>> this is a broader question of references to IANA registries, and not
>> just *this* reference to *an* IANA registry?
> 
> - actually, the note above (the extract from the document) is wrong.
>  +  each XML registry has in the note: "This registry is also available
> in plain text
> <http://www.iana.org/assignments/urn-namespaces/urn-namespaces.txt>."
>  and the .txt is available by http.
>  + the html version is redundant. the xml version has xsl statement for
> browsers to render it in html on the fly. so no need to have a separate
> html page.

Yes, this text is quite out of place in the document and needs to be
removed.

Peter

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