Re: [Uri-review] draft-larmouth-oid-iri-01 editorials

[John Larmouth <j.larmouth at btinternet.com>]

David,

We  have been trying to get an 'oid' IRI scheme registered for a long 
time now, and the syntax is well embedded in ITU-T standards.  I am 
operating on behalf of the ASN.1 Group in ISO/IEC and in ITU-T, and we 
do not want to change horses now.  Moreover, we do not believe that an 
HTTP prefix would meet our requiremes for use with the Object Identifier 
Resolution process and for other purposes involving ASN.1-based protocols.

John L



David Booth wrote:

> John,
>
> Why wouldn't an HTTP URI prefix be just as good or better for this
> purpose?  The use of HTTP URI prefixes is described here:
> http://dbooth.org/2006/urn2http/
> Note that HTTP URIs could dramatically improve the adoption rate for a
> new protocol, by resolving to a download of the protocol implementation
> software, as suggested by Graham Klyne:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/uri/2009Sep/0029.html 
>
> David Booth
>
>
>
> On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 15:42 +0100, John Larmouth wrote:
>  
>
> > Alfred, Chris,
> >
> > Many thanks for all your help.
> >
> > You will see that I have now posted  draft-larmouth-oid-iri-02 which  
> > contains all the corrections you suggested, and there have been no 
> > further comments on uri-review in the last couple of weeks..
> >
> > It is now my intention to e-mail iana at iana.org (in accordance with  RFC  
> > 4395) to request IANA to register 'oid:' as a permanent URI scheme, 
> > referencing draft-larmouth-oid-iri-02 (IANA considerations) for the 
> > registration template.
> >
> > If anyone on this list has problems with that, please  respond in the 
> > next week. 
> >
> > I guess that the Designated Expert for the IANA requested Expert Review 
> > is likely to be Alfred (who has been most active in reviewing earlier 
> > drafts), and will hopefully have no problems in rapidly responding to 
> > that request from IANA.
> >
> > I hope we can soon bring this to a conclusion.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > John L
> >
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