RFC 5791

RFC 2731 ("Encoding Dublin Core Metadata in HTML") Is Obsolete

📅 published February 2010, from ietf

RFC 5791: RFC 2731 Is Obsolete 🦋

okay bestie, the TL;DR is that RFC 5791 is an Informational doc (not a Standards Track thing, so it's not a rule everyone has to follow 💅) from February 2010. The authors are J. Reschke of greenbytes and J. Kunze of the University of California, and it's officially listed under ISSN 2070-1721. Its whole purpose is to say that RFC 2731 ("Encoding Dublin Core Metadata in HTML") is obsolete and got replaced by newer work 💀. It doesn't update anything else.

Abstract ✨

okay so this doc obsoletes RFC 2731, "Encoding Dublin Core Metadata in HTML", because all the further development on that spec moved over to the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) 🎀. The vibe shift is real.

Status of This Memo 🌸

this one is not an Internet Standards Track spec. it's just published for informational purposes, so no pressure 🫶

it's still a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), and it reflects the consensus of the IETF community. it got public review and was approved for publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). not every IESG-approved doc is a candidate for any level of Internet Standard, though. see Section 2 of RFC 5741 for the full tea ☕

if you want current status info, any errata, or a way to send feedback, check out http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5791 🧚

Copyright (c) 2010 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. ✨

this doc is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) as they were on the date of publication. read those carefully, bestie, because they explain your rights and restrictions 📜. any Code Components pulled out of this doc must include Simplified BSD License text, as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions, and they come without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License 🔥

1. Introduction ✨

okay so [RFC2731] is where "Encoding Dublin Core Metadata in HTML" lives. over the last decade, the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (http://dublincore.org/) published newer specs that made it obsolete, especially "Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements" ([DC-HTML]) 🦋

Note: if you're implementing RFC 2731, heads up, DC-HTML brings in a new requirement about the profile attribute on the head element. it's a whole plot twist 😭

2. Security Considerations 💀

this doc is purely administrative, so, no security relations to talk about. nothing to panic over here 🙈

3. 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/>.

[RFC2731]  Kunze, J., "Encoding Dublin Core Metadata in HTML",
           RFC 2731, December 1999.

Authors' Addresses 🫶

Julian F. Reschke
greenbytes GmbH
Hafenweg 16
Muenster, NW  48155
Germany

EMail: julian.reschke@greenbytes.de
URI:   http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/


John A. Kunze
University of California
Office of the President
415 20th Street, #406
Oakland, CA  94612-3550
U.S.A.

EMail: jak@ucop.edu
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