Re: IANA registration of URL schemes

On Wed, 27 Aug 1997 [email protected] wrote:

>      Hi Martin,
>      
>      Thank you for the response.  I will look into the working group.  I am 
>      interested in the draft document you mentioned.  I have the RFC 1738 - 
>      is that one one, or is there another one?

No, this is about syntax. The right one is draft-masinter-url-process-01.txt.
As I said before, this is not yet completed, but at least should show
you some of the things that you have to care about.

As for examlpes of drafts about URLs, I would suggest that you look in
particular at the IMAP URL draft (draft-newman-url-imap-??.txt), which
I think recently became an RFC, and at the nfs url draft (for an
example of a proprietary protocol like yours; I have made quite some
suggestions for improvement for an earlier version, but have not yet
had time to check the new version, which got announced recently and
which I think is draft-callaghan-url-nfs-01.txt). The IMAP URL scheme
is an excellent examlpe of how internationalization can be handled.


>      I am also interested in finding out if our specification, or rather 
>      our registration process for acquiring the specification falls short 
>      of the requirements of being publicly available.  (Or could this be 
>      something that is currently under discussion in teh working group as 
>      well?)

There are some rather general requirements from the overall nature and
process of the IETF. And there are some precedents, in particular the
nfs draft, where nfs itself is documented in RFCs.

Maybe Harald or Keith can say something about this?

Regards,	Martin.