Re: Call for Discussion: PNG Registration Process 20170116a

Glenn Randers-Pehrson <[email protected]> Sun, 12 Feb 2017 20:27:32 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.png.general
Message-ID <CA+PdXctnBWdvS_q9YUe+vbtGGRGyBg35qnhmumibFGH8WsMWhA@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 7:29 PM, John Bowler
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Glenn Randers-Pehrson

> A reasonable approach would be to have a fixed URI for a proposal for
> a chunk which redirects to the perma-link then make each proposal
> start with something like:
>
> URI: ...
> Status: discussion/vote/modified/expired
> Start of discussion period:
> Date of last minor edit:
> This version: <permalink>
> Previous version: <permalink>

Yes that is reasonable.  But the permalinks would have to be on
the ftp server, and would be subject to download requests
being rejected due to server overload (overload caused mostly by
libpng distributions, nearly 400k libpng tarball downloads
since 1 January 2017).

Glenn

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