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Bug 18365 - register about URIs defined by HTML5
Summary: register about URIs defined by HTML5
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P3 editorial
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
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Reported: 2012-07-23 15:59 UTC by Julian Reschke
Modified: 2016-04-20 16:32 UTC (History)
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Description Julian Reschke 2012-07-23 15:59:30 UTC
The specification for the "about" URI scheme has introduced a FCFS (first come first serve) registry for about URIs; the HTML5 spec should probably register about:legacy-compat, about:scrdoc, and update the definition for about:blank.

Procedure: <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-appsawg-about-uri-scheme-07#section-5.2.1> (essentially: send the template to IANA and you're done)

Registry: <http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-well-known-tokens/uri-well-known-tokens.xml>
Comment 1 Robin Berjon 2012-09-11 15:15:27 UTC
It's unclear to me from that document who one needs to send those templates to!
Comment 2 Julian Reschke 2012-09-11 15:22:45 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> It's unclear to me from that document who one needs to send those templates to!

iana@iana.org
Comment 3 Travis Leithead [MSFT] 2012-09-11 17:42:41 UTC
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Status: Resolved-WORKSFORME
Change Description: no registration performed
Rationale: the registry URL changed. It's now:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/about-uri-tokens/about-uri-tokens.xml

It appears that someone has already beaten me to this task, as the link above currently defines:
* about:legacy-compat
* about:srcdoc
* about:blank
* about:invalid

You note that the definition for about:blank entry should be updated. Can you please check the above link and confirm if this is still true? Thanks.
Comment 4 Julian Reschke 2012-09-11 17:49:12 UTC
I think the registration of about:blank should point to the HTML spec.

I also think that the other two HTML related registrations *should* point to the W3C spec.
Comment 5 Travis Leithead [MSFT] 2012-09-11 17:52:29 UTC
OK, I can certainly ask to have those changed. Thanks!
Comment 6 Edward O'Connor 2012-09-12 21:44:24 UTC
about:blank is defined by RFC 6694; no additional registration for it is required.
Comment 7 Michael[tm] Smith 2015-06-17 03:09:29 UTC
Unless somebody's going to take an action on actually doing something for this, it should be moved to resolved=wontfix as being a nice-to-have that nobody cares enough about to actually take responsibility for.
Comment 8 Travis Leithead [MSFT] 2016-04-20 16:32:45 UTC
HTML5.1 Bugzilla Bug Triage: Won't Fix

I tend to agree with hober and MikeSmith. But we are consensus-driven, so if you still disagree, please re-file in the GitHub issue tracker.

If this resolution is not satisfactory, please copy the relevant bug details/proposal into a new issue at the W3C HTML5 Issue tracker: https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/new where it will be re-triaged. Thanks!