Technical Summary
RFC 5988 specified a way to define relationships between links on
the web. This document describes a new type of such relationship,
"canonical", which designates the preferred URI from a set of
identical or vastly similar ones.
Working Group Summary
This document is not the product of a working group. It emerged
from a registration request on the link-relations@ietf.org list and
received comprehensive review on the apps-discuss@ietf.org list.
The discussion was fairly straightforward. Some questions were
raised about the need for the "canonical" link relation type and
about support for non-HTTP URIs. Those issues have been
addressed in the most recent version.
Document Quality
Reviews occurred on the apps-discuss@ietf.org list and the
link-relations@ietf.org list, resulting in good quality for the
specification.
Personnel
The Document Shepherd / Responsible Area Director is
Peter Saint-Andre.
RFC Editor Note
OLD
In designating a canonical URI, please see [RFC3986] for information
on URI encoding.
NEW
Internationalization considerations for link relations are provided
in Section 8 of [RFC5988].