Re: upcoming w3c coordination agenda item

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>]

this actually relates (slightly) to the architectural question to the IAB 
that we sent today.

in what way is it acceptable for a protocol implementation to change its 
behaviour based on the difference between an URI that represents a media 
type and an URI that "just happens to look like one" (to quote the 
document)?

My $0.02 is that it's not. But the W3C seems to be imagining that humans 
would do the dereferencing. And humans don't have strict rules for their 
behaviours.

--On 2. oktober 2003 14:17 -0400 Leslie Daigle <leslie@thinkingcat.com> 
wrote:

> From the minutes of the IETF-W3C coordination call of June,
> http://www.w3.org/2003/03/13-ietf-w3c.html
>
> there is an action item to follow up with IANA re. naming of (items in)
> registries.    WE'll be reviewing the status of that action item
> on the next call -- Tuesday of next week.
>
> There is a specific proposal ([0]), and Ned had the action item to
> follow up with IANA.  I dropped a note to Ned to find out what the
> status of things is, but I believe he's probably got much more important
> things on his mind.  He won't be on the call.  However, since this item
> has been trailing for quite a while, I'd like to have something more
> concrete to say on Tuesday's call.
> I don't think the proposal in [0] is reasonable, because I don't
> share the W3C's perspective that it's reasonable to declare that
> you'll never change your domain name or file organization.  Or,
> do we have to live with that?  Comments?
>
> Leslie.
>
> [0]
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-connolly-w3c-accessible-registr
> ies-00.txt
>
> P.S.:  Explicitly copying IANA, even though IANA is on IESG list,
> because I'd specifically like to hear her input...
>
>
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