Frank Ellermann has a work-in-progress draft for the registration of rel="search". It hasn't been submitted yet, so nothing has been registered, of course.
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ellermann-opensearch-01.txt That said, there are on the order of millions of pages and/or atom feeds with rel="search" on the web, and that link relation is included in the HTML5 draft [1], so I'd be surprised if that registration were to be rejected. [1] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#link-type-search -DeWitt On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Pete Brunet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I didn't see a response to this question... > > ----- Forwarded by Pete Brunet/Austin/IBM on 10/09/2008 03:49 PM ----- > *Pete Brunet/Austin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 07/10/2008 04:05 PM > To > [email protected] cc > Subject > link rel="search" > > > > > > I see OpenSearch uses a link rel value of "search", but I don't see > "search" in the RFC4287 spec > > 7.1 Registry of Link Relations > This registry is maintained by IANA and initially contains five values: > "alternate", "related", "self", "enclosure", and "via". New assignments are > subject to IESG Approval > > What is the status of the "search" rel value? > > Example: > <link rel="search" > href="http://example.com/opensearchdescription.xml"; > type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" > title="Content Search" /> > * > Pete Brunet* > > IBM Accessibility Architecture and Development > 11501 Burnet Road, MS 9022E004, Austin, TX 78758 > Voice: (512) 838-4594, Cell: (512) 689-4155 > Ionosphere: WS4G
