Subject: RE: Review of draft-ietf-atompub-format-02.txt

From: "Hammond, Tony" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 10:56:37 +0100

Hi:

> 	Why bother doing this? It appears to be quite possible 
> that "tag:" will be registered by the time our document is 
> finished.

I would have to caution that this may be a rather big assumption given that
(current) URI registration process is, as we all know, not especially
timely. The 'tag' scheme was first submitted in April 2001:

	http://www.taguri.org/2001-04-26/draft-kindberg-tag-uri-00.pdf

Cheers,

Tony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email-masked] 
> [mailto:[email-masked]] On Behalf Of Bob Wyman
> Sent: 10 September 2004 05:33
> To: 'Tim Bray'; 'Atom-Syntax WG'
> Cc: 'Joe Gregorio'; 'Robert Sayre'; 'Mark Nottingham'
> Subject: RE: Review of draft-ietf-atompub-format-02.txt
> 
> 
> 
> Tim Bray wrote:
> > 1.2 Example
> > The example is problematic in that it uses an unregistered 
> URI scheme, 
> > "tag:".  I'm trying to think of some other scheme (or URN 
> namespace) 
> > that will avoid provoking a storm of controversy... any ideas?
> 	Why bother doing this? It appears to be quite possible 
> that "tag:" will be registered by the time our document is 
> finished. If tag: is registered, it will be good to have it
> as an example. So, why not just leave the example as it is 
> and worry about it later? We could put some text into the 
> next draft that flagged it saying: "Check status of
> tag: prior to final version." -- just to make sure it doesn't 
> get forgotten.
> 
> 		bob wyman
> 

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