Re: Request for well-known URI: ecips

Wei Tang <hi@that.world> Mon, 08 April 2019 01:36 UTC

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From: Wei Tang <hi@that.world>
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Subject: Re: Request for well-known URI: ecips
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Hi Mark,

I want to argue that the name "ecips" is precise enough. The new
RFC5785bis really didn't say anything about requested names cannot be
too short.

> Registered names for a specific application SHOULD be correspondingly
> precise; “squatting” on generic terms is not encouraged.

I do hope we can use the name "ecips" as is because there're already
aggregators (like this https://github.com/tzdybal/hunter-gatherer)
written based on it. However, if you think this is really not okay, I'm
open to consider changing it.

-- Wei

Mark Nottingham writes:

> Hello Wei,
>
> Apologies for the delay; I was waiting for RFC5785 to be approved before moving forward on some registrations.
>
> From RFC5785bis:
>
>> Registered names for a specific application SHOULD be correspondingly precise; “squatting” on generic terms is not encouraged. For example, if the Example application wants a well-known location for metadata, an appropriate registered name might be “example-metadata” or even “example.com-metadata”, not “metadata”.
>
> Your requested name is not a common word, but it is a bit short. Would you consider using a longer name (e.g., "ethereum-classic-ip") to assure that it's specific enough?
>
> Regards,
>
>
>> On 8 Mar 2019, at 6:34 am, Wei Tang <hi@that.world> wrote:
>>
>> Signed PGP part
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We're working on a solution to make a specification repository (called
>> Ethereum Classic Improvement Proposals) more decentralized, as this is
>> one of the thing that is often requested by our community. Our current
>> draft is based on federation -- basically by allowing an aggregator to
>> build up a list of repositories, and then fetch specification
>> information from a well known URI. We didn't use solutions like
>> ActivityPub because upgrading to it from the current structure is
>> complicated, and we don't need the majority of its features.
>>
>> We need the well known URI both because we need to attest the
>> "authoritiveness" of the specification (it needs to have a single source
>> of truth in one particular repository), and also because for an
>> aggregator, fetching a repository with thousands of specifications by
>> individual URI would be too inefficient.
>>
>> * URI suffix: ecips
>> * Change controller: Wei Tang <hi@that.world>
>> * Specification document(s): https://ecips.that.world/24-ECIPURI
>>
>> -- Wei
>>
>>