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
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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
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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.