RE: Last Call: draft-nottingham-site-meta (Defining Well-Known URIs) to Proposed Standard

["Thomson, Martin" <Martin.Thomson at andrew.com>]

> > Along with that, is there any desire to attempt to register any
> > examples in the registry?  Moving robots.txt and favicon.ico here
> seems
> > logical.
> 
> "Moving" them is wishful thinking at best. I can poke around at Google
> and Yahoo! to see if the search teams would even want to think about it
> but it would be nothing but dead records in the registry. And dead
> records tend to make the whole registry look bad.

"moving" was intentionally inflammatory ;)  I'd imagine that these would need to remain in their current locations indefinitely.  However, I do mean "moving" in the sense that it seems that would be a desirable end goal.  Starting with a registration would be a start.