The I-D points out the impossibility of specifying how to handle the many different tokens that a browser may encounter in the about: scheme and then goes on to tell us what Opera does. I am uncomfortable with a Standards Track document telling us about the behaviour of one and only one product, with, the text being in the body of the I-D, an implication that this text has Normative status (earlier versions of this I-D also included Mozilla Firefox). The web browser mentioned is a fine web browser but I think that having just the one example is inappropriate; other examples should be mentioned (and they all should be in an Informative appendix). Tom Petch ----- Original Message ----- From: "The IESG" <iesg-secretary@xxxxxxxx> To: "IETF-Announce" <ietf-announce@xxxxxxxx> Cc: <apps-discuss@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 10:57 PM > > The IESG has received a request from the Applications Area Working Group > WG (appsawg) to consider the following document: > - 'The "about" URI Scheme' > <draft-ietf-appsawg-about-uri-scheme-04.txt> as a Proposed Standard > > 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@xxxxxxxx mailing lists by 2012-05-02. Exceptionally, comments may be > sent to iesg@xxxxxxxx instead. In either case, please retain the > beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. > > Abstract > > This document specifies the "about" URI scheme, which is widely used > by web browsers and some other applications to designate access to > their internal resources, such as settings, application information, > hidden built-in functionality, and so on. > > The file can be obtained via > http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-appsawg-about-uri-scheme/ > > IESG discussion can be tracked via > http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-appsawg-about-uri-scheme/ballot/ > > No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.