Re: Registration process for new URL schemes

At 10:16 AM 4/24/97 EDT, Rich Petke wrote:
>If you left Memphis with a
>different understanding of our meeting and/or you have additional issues,
>please post your comments to the list.

Nope, your recap seems accurate.

>1) There needs to be some registry (IANA or the like) that keeps the
master list
>of URL scheme names (public and private alike).  This is needed to ensure
that
>scheme names are unique.

Right. I suggest that the same body that keeps the list of URL schemes
will, most probably, also get the job of registering URN namespaces
once the URN-WG has setled on that process. It seems prudent that
we make sure URL scheme IDs and URN namespace IDs don't conflict.


>Does one register the
>scheme first then publish an informational or standards track RFC or the
other
>way around?  If registration is first, do we have a time limit on how long it
>can take for a documentation RFC (of either type) to appear?

I suggest that an Internet Draft accompany registration, and that it
is forwarded to the IESG for action at the time of registration. They
may either send it straight to last call, or whatever they deem appropriate.

Regards,

Ron Daniel Jr.              voice:+1 505 665 0597
Advanced Computing Lab        fax:+1 505 665 4939
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