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Re: Last Call: <draft-faltstrom-uri-10.txt> (The Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) DNS Resource Record) to Proposed Standard

2015-02-26 10:26:34
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:12 AM, Mark Nottingham <mnot(_at_)mnot(_dot_)net> 
wrote:

The document effectively gives a "type" for the URI by associating a value
from the ENUM service registry. While that makes sense from the standpoint
of ENUM, if this mechanism is truly generic to *all* URIs, it seems to me
that it'd be much more sensible to use the typing system already in place
for URIs -- link relations <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5988>.


Such a good idea that there is already a draft with just such an approach:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-newton-link-rr/

-andy