[AFS3-std] Re: AFS and 'afs' URI scheme

[Matt W. Benjamin]

Hi,

My impression is the originating motivation for making changes to the AFS uri scheme (among others) is coming from Mr. Yevstifeyev -to- a working group.  There were similar proposals made to the TSVWG recently.

Matt

----- "Andrew Deason" <adeason@sinenomine.net> wrote:

> >
> > Moving the scheme to Historical category does not restrict its
> usage,
> > but discourages it.  See
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4395#section-4
> > 
> > This document also says nothing about specifying schemes currently
> > listed as Historical.  But there is an effort to revise RFC 4395
> > currently occurring in the IETF.  The Working Group doing this work
> on
> > the meeting right yesterday agreed that such action will be
> impossible
> > or strongly discouraged.
> 
> Okay, then I would vote for keeping the afs URI scheme in its current
> status of provisional, and reserved for future standardization. I
> know
> it's been that way for quite some time, but if it makes it more
> palatable, we could probably come up with a more proper provisional
> URI
> submission without too much difficulty, given some time. Would the
> involved WG find it helpful if we did that?
> -- 
> Andrew Deason
> adeason@sinenomine.net


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