Re: URI for launching an instant message?

The IETF proposals for instant messaging include corresponding URI schemes...

   http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/impp-charter.html

e.g. section 5 of:

   http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-impp-cpim-02.txt

Specific protocol proposals may define further URI schemes.

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At 12:41 PM 3/7/02 +0900, dan latham wrote:
>I hope this is the right place to put this kind of question. Has there been
>any proposals to launch an instant message client from a URL? What I'd
>like, is similar to how mailto works. I'd like to have an 
>"instanmessageto" that would
>launch the local instant messaging client to initiate a conversation with 
>a user.
>I can see one problem with this is the lack of standards around instant
>messaging.
>
>dan
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