Frank Ellermann has a work-in-progress draft for the registration of rel="search". It hasn't been submitted yet, so nothing has been registered, of course.
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ellermann-opensearch-01.txt
That said, there are on the order of millions of pages and/or atom feeds with rel="search" on the web, and that link relation is included in the HTML5 draft [1], so I'd be surprised if that registration were to be rejected.
[1]
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#link-type-search-DeWitt
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Pete Brunet
<brunet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I didn't see a response
to this question...
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I see OpenSearch uses a link rel value of "search", but I don't
see "search" in the RFC4287 spec
7.1 Registry of Link Relations
This registry is maintained by IANA and initially contains five values:
"alternate", "related", "self", "enclosure",
and "via". New assignments are subject to IESG Approval
What is the status of the "search" rel value?
Example:
<link rel="search"
href="" href="http://example.com/opensearchdescription.xml" target="_blank">http://example.com/opensearchdescription.xml"
type="application/opensearchdescription+xml"
title="Content Search" />
Pete Brunet
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