"Mark S. Miller" wrote:
>
> At 03:58 AM 5/14/00 , Ben Laurie wrote:
> >I'm investigating how we go about registering httpy:. ... which is
> >going to be non-trivial.
>
> Sounds to me like a good reason to merge proposals, assuming it makes sense
> on other grounds...
OK, the source of all scheme registering knowledge is RFC 2717 "Registration Procedures for URL Scheme Names". As I feared, an I-D is required. Which means it has to be sanctioned by the IESG (directly or via a WG).
OTOH, we now seem to be talking about registering a URN namespace, which is detailed in RFC 2611 "URN Namespace Definition Mechanisms".
This is slightly less painful in that we can do an "informal" registration just by asking IANA nicely - but then all you get is a URN namespace that looks like "urn-1234". "Formal" registration requires an RFC, and is the only way to get a "real" namespace.
So, either way, it looks like we need IESG buy-in. Which means choosing an area, and approaching the ADs.
I guess we're looking at Applications or Security.
Cheers,
Ben.
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