Network Working Group J. Reschke Internet-Draft greenbytes Obsoletes: 2731 (if approved) August 19, 2009 Intended status: Informational Expires: February 20, 2010 RFC 2731 is Obsolete draft-reschke-rfc2731bis-01 Status of this Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted to IETF in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt. The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. This Internet-Draft will expire on February 20, 2010. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2009 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents in effect on the date of publication of this document (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info). Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Abstract This document recommends that RFC 2731, on Encoding Dublin Core Metadata in HTML, be reclassified as Historic, as further development Reschke Expires February 20, 2010 [Page 1]
Internet-Draft RFC 2731 is Obsolete August 2009 of this specification has moved to the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. 1. Introduction [RFC2731] defines "Encoding Dublin Core Metadata in HTML". Newer specifications published by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative [1] (DCMI), in particular [DC-HTML], have obsoleted this work. Note: Implementers of RFC 2731 should note that Section 4.1 of [DC-HTML] introduces a new requirement with respect to the use of the "head" element's "profile" attribute. 2. Recommendation to Reclassify RFC 2731 This document recommends that the IESG reclassify [RFC2731] as Historic. 3. Security Considerations There are no security considerations related to this document. 4. IANA Considerations There are no IANA considerations related to this document. 5. References 5.1. Normative References [DC-HTML] Johnston, P. and A. Powell, "Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements", Dublin Core Metadata Initiative , August 2008, <http://dublincore.org/documents/2008/08/04/dc-html/>. 5.2. Informative References [RFC2731] Kunze, J., "Encoding Dublin Core Metadata in HTML", RFC 2731, December 1999. URIs [1] <http://dublincore.org/> Reschke Expires February 20, 2010 [Page 2]
Internet-Draft RFC 2731 is Obsolete August 2009 Appendix A. Related Discussion on DC-ARCHITECTURE Mailing list (to be removed by RFC Editor before publication This proposal has been discussed and approved on the DC-ARCHITECTURE mailing list (<DC-ARCHITECTURE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK>, <https:// www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ webadmin?A2=DC-ARCHITECTURE;XwVOng;20090818152516%2B0200>). Author's Address Julian F. Reschke greenbytes GmbH Hafenweg 16 Muenster, NW 48155 Germany Email: julian.reschke@greenbytes.de URI: http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/ Reschke Expires February 20, 2010 [Page 3]
