On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 01:57:30PM -0700, The IESG wrote: > > 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 I read this document. I have no strong objection to it, but I can see no reason whatever that it should be on the standards track, because AFAICT it doesn't standardize anything. I seem to recall saying something similar in the WG some time ago, but I suspect I missed the WGLC for this draft or I would have said the same thing there. It should not be on the standards track because it fails a minimal test for interoperability. Section 2 makes clear that there is no common meaning of about: URIs. This means that there is no reason to suppose a URI of the form about:foo accesses the same resource when accessed from different products. Best regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx