On Apr 18, 2012, at 9:40 PM, Cullen Jennings wrote:

> 
> On Mar 8, 2012, at 5:55 AM, Zach Shelby wrote:
> 
>>> 
>>> Major issues:
>>>  What is the registration / collision avoidance strategy for resource type 
>>> (rt) and interface description (if) values?  They are both defined as 
>>> opaque strings which can happen to be URIs.  So there seems to be potential 
>>> for collision.
>> 
>> There is definitely a possibility for collision for those two attributes, 
>> especially as there will be a mix of specifications that define specific 
>> values to be used, and developers using their own values. Currently while 
>> those are being defined in CoRE drafts we can avoid collisions, but when 
>> other WGs or SDOs start defining them...
>> 
>> We have deliberated on the idea of defining registries for rt= and if= 
>> values, but it has not been clear if that should be done in this document. 
>> Recently several CoRE drafts have been written that do specify well-known 
>> values for those fields, so it starts to become obvious that those 
>> registries would be useful. If I understand right, your recommendation would 
>> be that we define those registries in the IANA section of this document? I 
>> would be in favor of doing that.
> 
> Where are we on resolving topic? This is closely linked with the registry 
> proposed in senml. 

Yes, it is being resolved in Ticket #195. I am adding both registries following 
the same style as the relation registry in RFC5988. 

http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/core/trac/ticket/195

The only action point right now is for me to update the draft closing this and 
the other tickets.

Zach

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