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Re: I-D Action:draft-duerst-iana-namespace-00.txt



Hi,

I'm adding IANA and Thomas Narten (author of IANA considerations docs) to this thread to get early IANA feedback about this idea.  It may well be a good idea, but we definitely want to think it through:

 - A registry for HTTP URLs in the IANA domain
   ... including a HTML or XML document hosted by IANA on its Website at the location specified in the registered URL
  ... which means that end-users and developers will use these URIs, perhaps very frequently

What do we know about the W3 experience hosting namespace URIs with actual documents at the URIs?  I've been hearing rumours lately about something like this causing expensive levels of traffic, but I can't recall the details.

Lisa

Begin forwarded message:

From: Martin Duerst <duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp>
Date: February 18, 2008 3:39:31 AM PST
Subject: Fwd: I-D Action:draft-duerst-iana-namespace-00.txt 

Based on some earlier discussion on this list and some encouragement
by Chris, Tim Bray and myself wrote a proposal for HTTP namespace
URI registration with IANA. Comments appreciated.

Regards,   Martin.

Subject: I-D Action:draft-duerst-iana-namespace-00.txt 
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:30:01 -0800 (PST)

A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.

      Title           : HTTP-based IETF Namespace URIs at IANA
      Author(s)       : M. Duerst, T. Bray
      Filename        : draft-duerst-iana-namespace-00.txt
      Pages           : 8
      Date            : 2008-02-18

This document creates a registry and defines a procedure to allow
IETF specifications to register XML Namespace Names with IANA which
are HTTP URIs and thus potentially useful for looking up information
about the namespace.

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