Re: Template URIs vs. URIs from Frank Ellermann on 2006-10-06 (uri@w3.org from October 2006)

From: Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de>
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 04:11:13 +0200
To: uri@w3.org
Message-ID: <4525BB41.4A86@xyzzy.claranet.de>

Roy T. Fielding wrote:

> All of the URI specs have specifically excluded braces from the
> syntax, partly because it was anticipated that we would need a
> syntax for variable substitution some day.

There's apparently nothing like <delim> or <unwise> in RFC 3986,
and RFC 4622 now happily uses _anything_ that's not explicitly 
"verboten" by RFC 3986.  The xmpp: scheme was reviewed here.

Frank

Received on Friday, 6 October 2006 02:16:47 UTC