Re: Genart telechat review of draft-ietf-opsawg-mud-20

[Eliot Lear <lear@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Robert and everyone else,

Circling for a landing here...

On 11.04.18 18:15, Robert Sparks wrote:

With this, I'm puzzled about the use of the word standardized at all. I think I'm hearing that you expect MUD controllers to know about some well-known classes by convention and that groups like fairhair or someone else might make a list of classes that MUD controllers might collectively decide to build in knowledge of. Am I getting closer to the right picture? (This is opposed to a set of classes that are created by a standards action and listed in a registry somewhere).

I've attempted to clarify this language as we discussed.  On the point of standardization, I've made a clean separation:

• URNs: standardized (and therefore hopefully well documented) behaviors, such as DNS and NTP.
• URIs that take the form of URLs.  These are just class names that the administrator has to fill out, or are otherwise somehow pre-populated.

I hope that this resolves any lingering confusion.

Thanks again for working to improve this document.  I really appreciate it!

Eliot