Re: IANA, DNS names, URL names...

[Tom Limoncelli <tal@research.bell-labs.com>]

Masataka Ohta wrote:
> 
> Tom;
>
>> However, it is not clear what we are to infer from this.  Your statement
>> "URLREG WG is useless" made on this mailing list isn't a clear
>> conclusion.
>
> FYI, just recently, there was a pointless discussion on "tv" URL in
> IETF list.

Industries seem to put a lot of value on having a <scheme> named after them.
We shouldn't forget this.

Every year I have to write a report to my boss of my accomplishments.  Most
people do.  Which would look better:
	I invented the tv:// syntax!!!
or
	I utilized existing syntax to make a workable solution to specify
	television channels in the URL namespace.

The first one serves a person.  The second one serves the community.  The
former must be discouraged; the latter must be encouraged.  My initial
reading of the URLREG drafts suggests that they would discourage the former
but do nothing to encourage the latter.

--tal