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

[Mark Nottingham <mnot at mnot.net>]

Details:
  http://www.w3.org/blog/systeam/2008/02/08/w3c_s_excessive_dtd_traffic

Personally, if I had to serve this traffic, I'd put a highly- 
concurrent Web server (e.g., Lighttpd) in place and build a one-second 
+ delay into serving those responses. Fine for human use, but will  
motivate software authors to find out why things suddenly got so slow...

Beyond that, question: how many IETF specs use a namespace URI as the  
primary means of identifying the format/protocol? As opposed to a  
media type. My suspicion is that the number is fairly small. If that's  
the case, I wonder if there's a need for these URIs to be resolvable.

Cheers,


On 19/02/2008, at 6:01 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:

> Lisa Dusseault wrote:
> > 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.
> > ...
>
> That was about DTDs (fetched by XML parsers), not namespace documents.
>
> BR, Julian


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