New RFC about registration of URI schemes

["Drummond Reed" <drummond.reed@cordance.net>]

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.

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.