Re: Request for well-known URI: est

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Thu, 15 August 2013 22:17 UTC

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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/ :-)

Peter