Registering a URI scheme

["Larry Golding (Myriad Consulting Inc)" <v-lgold@microsoft.com>]

Our TC’s work item https://github.com/oasis-tcs/sarif-spec/issues/182, “Register SARIF MIME type and sarif URI scheme” also proposed two other IANA registrations:

 

• The URI scheme sarif, which points to locations within a SARIF file, for example sarif:/inlineExternalProperties/0
• The media type application/sarif-external-properties+json, describing SARIF external properties files.

 

The media type is uncontroversial, and I’m going to begin the process of registering it.

 

As to the sarif URI scheme, I’m going to read RFC7595, “Guidelines and Registration Procedures for URI Schemes”, before deciding what to do. I’m a little concerned that the limited scope of this construct (pointing, as it does, into a single, un-named file) might not actually qualify it as a URI.

 

Larry