Re: [wellknown-uri-review] A .well-known registration for review

On 05/02/2012 12:41 AM, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> My .02 - 
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> I suspect there are several better ways to do this, that don't do such bad things to the Web architecture. Well-known URIs are an escape valve, not permission :)
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> OTOH the role of a registry is to register, not to be a gatekeeper for quality. 
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> Regarding Eran's concern, I tend to agree, EXCEPT that 5785 also says:
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>>    It MAY also contain additional information, such as the syntax of
>>    additional path components, query strings and/or fragment identifiers
>>    to be appended to the well-known URI, or protocol-specific details
>>    (e.g., HTTP [RFC2616] method handling).
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> So, strictly speaking, there's an argument for both sides here.

Crap, so now I need to go re-read 5785 properly;-)

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> Anyway, I'd rather see these issues debated on the apps-discuss list than here. Although, apps-discuss is getting mighty busy these days...

We've asked for review of this on apps-discuss already so there's
a thread on which you can respond, e.g. [1] relates to comments
from James Manger. More comments are welcome!

S.

[1] http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/apps-discuss/current/msg05483.html

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> On 01/05/2012, at 1:59 AM, Stephen Farrell wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> We have a draft [1] that requests a registration of
>> a .well-known URI.
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>> The core WG are likely to want to use these we think
>> and possibly decade, but they're intended to be generally
>> useful as well.
>>
>> Barry Leiba is planning to AD sponsor this and Alexey
>> Melnikov will be shepherding so if you can cc them as
>> well as the authors on any questions or comments that'd
>> be good.
>>
>> I hope the plan is to IETF LC this soon, once this
>> review and the uri registrations review are done.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Stephen.
>>
>> [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-farrell-decade-ni-05
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