Dear Authors/Chairs/ADs Please see below for comments from the expert.
Best regards, David Dong IANA Services Sr. Specialist On Sun Feb 16 08:28:46 2025, m...@mnot.net wrote: > David et al, > > Section 10.2 has a title of "Link Relations Registry" but the URL > given is "https://www.iana.org/assignments/rdap-extensions/ > rdap-extensions.xhtml" -- it looks like the intent is to register > link relations given the content of the entries, so the URL needs to > be corrected. > > Assuming that's the case, I see that 'up' is already registered, so > that registration is not necessary. > > Both that and the remaining requests are extremely generic terms, and > so aren't appropriate to register in a specific protocol's document; > experience shows that doing so misleads readers to believe that these > terms are specific to that protocol and not useable elsewhere. > > Instead, I'd suggest registering them in a separate, standalone > document, using generic descriptions that are broadly applicable; your > document can then refine their semantics in a specific context. I > suspect the HTTPAPI WG would be amenable to such work. > > Alternatively, you could register link relation types specific to your > application; for example, "rdap-up" and so forth. > > I also notice that you define compound link relation types, e.g., "up- > active" and "top-active". Consider defining a separate "active" > relation type (again, either generically, or specific to your > application, depending on your preferences), which can then be used in > combination with other types -- e.g., "top active" and "up active". > > Cheers, > > > > On 15 Feb 2025, at 3:23 pm, David Dong via RT <drafts-expert-review- > comm...@iana.org> wrote: > > > > > > Dear Mark Nottingham, Julian Reschke, Jan Algermissen (cc: regext > > WG), > > > > As the designated experts for the Link Relation Types registry, can > > you review the proposed registrations in draft-ietf-regext-rdap-rir- > > search-14 for us? Please see: > > > > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-regext-rdap-rir-search/ > > > > The due date is February 28th. > > > > If this is OK, when the IESG approves the document for publication, > > we'll make the registrations at: > > > > https://www.iana.org/assignments/link-relations/ > > > > Unless you ask us to wait for the other reviewer, we’ll act on the > > first response we receive. > > > > With thanks, > > > > David Dong > > IANA Services Sr. Specialist > > -- > Mark Nottingham https://www.mnot.net/ _______________________________________________ regext mailing list -- regext@ietf.org To unsubscribe send an email to regext-le...@ietf.org
