We have a registry ready. It is being defined by the IETF and managed by IANA.
As for making this a URI or string I don't care much.
EHL
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Cantor [mailto:]
> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 12:13 PM
> To: 'Will Norris'; 'XRI TC'
> Subject: RE: [xri] Version Control Commit by blade
>
> Will Norris wrote on 2009-08-20:
> > Now that's really interesting... I hadn't considered "describedby" to
> > be a valid value for <Rel>. I'm actually not too fond of that, and
> am
> > now wondering if we *should* in fact mandate an absolute URI here.
>
> We should. If you want a URI data type in this kind of field, absolute
> is
> just assumed (but should be made explicit). Otherwise use string and
> get
> your registry ready. Do NOT allow for people to just go using strings
> themselves. That's a terrible practice and causes no end of problems.
>
> -- Scott
>
>
>
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