Ben Adida wrote:
... And if that's the case, then surely the language one uses (HTML4, HTML5, XHTML1, XHTML2) is well within its right to process @rel values, because they're *already* doing it. In fact, it seems impossible to hope that raw @rel values will mean the same thing across all languages when previous versions of HTML already have frozen value sets for @rel, and they're *not* URIs. ...
The Link Header draft proposes a single new registry (containing existing HTML and Atom relations) -- so no, this doesn't seem to be a problem.
BR, Julian