- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 02:00:03 -0500 (EST)
- To: dcrocker@brandenburg.com (Dave Crocker)
- Cc: dee3@torque.pothole.com (Donald E. Eastlake 3rd), discuss@apps.ietf.org
> At 01:26 AM 11/25/2001 -0500, Mark Baker wrote: > > > Think a bit about the "mailto:" scheme. > > > >Typically pops up a new outgoing email box. Quite safe (it doesn't > >send the email). > > You are confusing implementation with protocol. The mailto URI scheme is not associated with any protocol. See section 3 of RFC 2368. > The idea that publicly transmitted information can be treated as "safe" -- > without assorted, special certification is just plain wrong. What's wrong with wanting identifiers to identify, and nothing more? MB -- Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. mbaker@planetfred.com http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.planetfred.com
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