WG Last Call - Guidelines Document

At the December IETF meeting in Washington, DC, the consensus of those
in attendance was to advance the guidelines draft to "WG Last Call"
status as soon as a few minor edits were made to it.  Larry made the
edits (thanks Larry), and the updated draft has been published.

In reviewing the new draft I found a few minor typos (mostly in the area
of the references to the URL/URI syntax document), a few sentences
that should be re-worded slightly to aid in the translation of the
document into other languages, and outdated addresses for two of the
authors.  Nothing that would change the meaning of anything in the
document.

Before these final edits are made I'd like to put the document forward
to the WG for a "last call" to see if there are any other issues.
Given the holiday season, let's shoot for a 3 week last call period
rather than the traditional 2 weeks.  In other words, if you have an
issue, please post it to the list before January 20, 1998.  The sooner
an issue is posted, the sooner we can resolve it.

Dan Zigmond is authoring a draft of the BCP for the registration
procedures and I'd like to have the guidelines document out of the
way before we start discussions on the BCP, if at all possible.

For those who missed the announcement of the guidelines draft, here
it is:

	Title		: Guidelines for new URL Schemes
	Author(s)	: H. Alvestrand, L. Masinter, D. Zigmond
	Filename	: draft-ietf-urlreg-guide-01.txt
	Pages		: 5
	Date		: 22-Dec-97
	
   A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a compact string representation
   of the location for a resource that is available via the Internet.
   [RFC URL-SYNTAX] defines the general syntax and semantics of URLs.
   This document provides guidelines for the definition of new URL
   schemes and describes the process by which they are registered.

Rich Petke ([email protected])
CompuServe Networking Services
WG co-chair