The web root became a junk drawer, and everyone wants a slot in it (mnot.net)
Mark Nottingham, who edited the spec, has a blunt filter for anyone proposing a new entry: if your protocol can carry a real URL, don't reserve a fixed location at all.
The thread's sharpest line reframed the whole pattern as the latest answer to a problem the web keeps re-solving: a TXT record, a meta tag, an X.509 attribute, a random file at the top level.
One developer with sites in the wild asked the awkward question: does anything, even a bot, ever actually fetch the change-password URI the registry promotes?
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