Given the people lining up to claim their name https://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/uri-schemes.xhtml#uri-schemes-1 is it possible to put a moratorium on provisional registrations? -- https://LarryMasinter.net https://going-remote.info > -----Original Message----- > From: Larry Masinter <masinter@xxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Larry Masinter > Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2020 9:18 PM > To: 'Mark Nottingham' <mnot@xxxxxxxx>; 'John C Klensin' <john-ietf@xxxxxxx> > Cc: 'Carsten Bormann' <cabo@xxxxxxx>; 'IETF' <ietf@xxxxxxxx> > Subject: RE: Appeal from Tim McSweeney regarding draft-mcsweeney-drop- > scheme > > Getting some uniformity of process around web extension points would be helpful. > You've done a lot to simplify submission, why not for schemes. > I don't think it's necessary to remove old provisional schemes, but it should be > possible for someone else to claim use . > > The thing that we wanted to avoid was scheme-squatting, and fighting over who > gets to use pizza: or food: or amazon: > This is a risk in RegisterProtocolHandler That kind of judgement was part of the > reaction to the drop scheme. > Such a common word, 'drop' but he couldn't change it because he was already > using the word in dropnumber.com. > > I don't know how to solve this problem; there are too many constraints. > > I blame RegisterProtocolHandler because before it was really hard to deploy a > new scheme, so it wouldn't matter who owned pizza: >
