Technical Summary
This specification defines a model for the relationships between
resources on the Web ("links") and the type of those relationships
("link relation types").
It also defines the serialisation of such links in HTTP headers with
the Link header field.
This document obsoletes RFC 5988.
Working Group Summary
This is not a WG document, but it is based on experience running
the Web Linking registry.
Document Quality
This is mostly a piece of work that needed to get done but that no one
had much interest in doing. Mark took it on and got feedback, but the
document shepherd can't find any record of discussion in any mailing
list archives. Mark brought it to DISPATCH, which raised no interest
either.
There was a good amount of discussion on the github issues list, which
had good representation from the community:
https://github.com/mnot/I-D/issues?q=is:issue label:rfc5988bis
The bottom line is that the document is ready to go, and any last-call
discussion will be adequate. This is a good example of a document for
which silence is a reasonable measure of consensus. The only tricky
bit is that Section 4.2 is proposing a different model for maintaining
the registry, and we need to make sure there's good communication with
IANA on that.
Personnel
Barry Leiba is the document shepherd.
Alexey Melnikov is the responsible AD.