2014-08-26 UTC
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jasnell "RFC5988 states that well known link relations *can* be registered "for convenience and/or to promote reuse". 5988 says nothing about the registry being the canonical source of anything. The spec does give specific guidelines for registered link relations but it does not say or even imply that all link relations must be registered. It doesn't even come close to doing so. Use of the IANA registry is optional. Which brings us back to the original