The IESG has received a request from the Applications Area Working Group WG (appsawg) to consider the following document: - 'URI Design and Ownership' <draft-ietf-appsawg-uri-get-off-my-lawn-04.txt> as Best Current Practice The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2014-05-07. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract RFC3986 Section 1.1.1 defines URI syntax as "a federated and extensible naming system wherein each scheme's specification may further restrict the syntax and semantics of identifiers using that scheme." In other words, the structure of a URI is defined by its scheme. While it is common for schemes to further delegate their substructure to the URI's owner, publishing independent standards that mandate particular forms of URI substructure is inappropriate, because that essentially usurps ownership. This document further describes this problematic practice and provides some acceptable alternatives for use in standards. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-appsawg-uri-get-off-my-lawn/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-appsawg-uri-get-off-my-lawn/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
