Re: Request for well-known URI: est

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Fri, 16 August 2013 23:02 UTC

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On 8/15/13 9:29 PM, Dan Harkins wrote:
> 
> 
> On 8/15/13 3:17 PM, "Peter Saint-Andre" <stpeter@stpeter.im> wrote:
> 
>> On 8/15/13 3:30 PM, Dan Harkins wrote:
>>>
>>>   Is EST the guinea pig for this .well-known stuff? Seems
>>> like it.
>>
>> No, other folks have registered things before:
>>
>> http://www.iana.org/assignments/well-known-uris/
>>
>>>   I have heard nothing but complaints from implementers about
>>> this-- "that's stupid", "why on earth would you require that?",
>>> "nobody does this", etc.-- and would not mind getting a
>>> dispensation from the Canon Law here.
>>
>> I'm not sure that the well-known-uri-review list is really the right
>> place for a long discussion about the philosophy of /.well-known/ :-)
> 
>   Yes, of course. I feel like this is from the movie Brazil.
> 
>   "We only process the 587 stroke 3 forms here, if you want to
> complain about it you must file a 552 stroke 6 with the Bureau
> of Redressing Forms over at the Institute of Assignment." Where
> I will, no doubt, get maced.

:-)

I'd be happy to raise this issue on the apps-discuss list, unless the
application area directors tell me that's not the right place.

Peter

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