The IESG has approved the following document: - 'The file URI Scheme' (draft-ietf-appsawg-file-scheme-16.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the ART Area General Applications Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Alexey Melnikov, Ben Campbell and Alissa Cooper. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-appsawg-file-scheme/ Technical Summary This document specifies the "file" Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme, replacing the definition in RFC 1738. It defines a common syntax which is intended to interoperate across the broad spectrum of existing usages. It also notes some other current practices around the use of file URIs. Working Group Summary The work was done in the APPSWG Working group and has received significant community comment, with multiple revisions resulting. Support for the work appears solid. This document went through two WGLCs. The first one yielded some input but the document shepherd review identified numerous issues that resulted in a flurry of other review traffic and document revisions. A second WGLC was then done that yielded no feedback at all. WG Chair/Shepherd suspect this is a result of wandered interest (since APPSAWG is closing) rather than any indication that the document is not sound or does not have consensus to proceed.] Document Quality Document development had some coordination with the W3C community, which can be expected to use this work. There are multiple implementations of this URI scheme, most notably different browsers. Personnel Document Shepherd: Dave Crocker Process management: Murray Kucherawy Responsible AD: Alexey Melnikov
