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Subject: Re: New RFC about registration of URI schemes
Drummond Reed wrote: > > > FYI - Jeff Hodges of NeuStar, an observer on the XRI TC, asked me to pass > along the following info: > > FYI, the guidelines and procedures for registering new URI schemes (e.g. > "xri:") with IANA (nee IETF) are being revised and are essentially baked. > It's been approved for publication as a RFC and will be denoted as a "best > current practice (BCP)". It does not yet have an RFC number assigned AFAICT. The RFC was published in Feb-2006 and is.. 4395 Guidelines and Registration Procedures for New URI Schemes. T. Hansen, T. Hardie, L. Masinter. February 2006. (Format: TXT=31933 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC2717, RFC2718) (Also BCP0115) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE) > > It'd probably be a good idea for xri: mavens to review this. > > Note that it includes this text, in part at the behest of the W3C TAG.. > > > 2.1. Demonstratable, new, long-lived utility > > The use and deployment of new URI schemes in the Internet > infrastructure is costly; some parts of URI processing may be scheme- > dependent, and deployed software already processes URIs of well-known > schemes. Introducing a new URI scheme may require additional > software, not only for client software and user agents but also in > additional parts of the network infrastructure (gateways, proxies, > caches).[13]. URI schemes constitute a single, global namespace; it > is desirable to avoid contention over use of short, mneumonic scheme > names. For these reasons, the unbounded registration of new schemes > is harmful. New URI schemes SHOULD have clear utility to the broad > Internet community, beyond that available with already registered URI > schemes. > > > > JeffH > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Protocol Action: 'Guidelines and Registration Procedures for new > URI > Schemes' to BCP > Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:23:13 -0500 > From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> > To: IETF-Announce <ietf-announce@ietf.org> > CC: Internet Architecture Board <iab@iab.org>, RFC Editor > <rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org> > > The IESG has approved the following document: > > - 'Guidelines and Registration Procedures for new URI Schemes ' > <draft-hansen-2717bis-2718bis-uri-guidelines-06.txt> as a BCP > > This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an > IETF Working Group. > > The IESG contact person is Scott Hollenbeck. > > A URL of this Internet-Draft is: > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hansen-2717bis-2718bis-uri-guideli > nes- > 06.txt > > Technical Summary > > This document provides guidelines and recommendations for the > definition of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) schemes. It also > updates the process and IANA registry for URI schemes. If approved, > this document obsoletes RFCs 2717 and 2718. > > Working Group Summary > > This document is the work of individual submitters. It has not been > reviewed by an IETF working group, though it was reviewed by members > of the uri@w3.org mailing list. An IETF last call was requested and > completed. Review comments have been incorporated into the document. > > Protocol Quality > > Scott Hollenbeck has reviewed this document for the IESG. In > addition, it was reviewed by the members of the uri@w3.org mailing > list. > >
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