Re: Registration of acct: as a URI scheme has been requested

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Melvin Carvalho
<melvincarvalho@gmail.com>wrote:

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> On 20 June 2012 21:04, Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> writes:
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>> > If the architecture of the world wide web can't accommodate new URI
>> > schemes then its broken. The great news is that it isn't broken.
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>> The Web can indeed accommodate new URI schemes.  As I read it, this
>> isn't a proposal for a new URI scheme.  It's a proposal to add a
>> string of letters to a quasi-email-address so that the result _looks_
>> like a URI.  But as far as I can tell although it _looks_ like a URI,
>> it doesn't _walk_ like one (If I include it in my HTML nothing will
>> happen when a user clicks on it) or even _quack_ like one (No
>> general-purpose semantics is provided for it in the RFC draft that I
>> can see), so I'm inclined to conclude that it's _not_ a duckXXXXURI.
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>> Seriously, my point is that not every identifier that's used in a
>> protocol that is used on the Web has to be a URI.  The ones that are
>> expected to be generic, to have a meaning and utility _outside_ the
>> protocol, sure.  But in that case I expect to see a
>> protocol-independent use for them spelled out.
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>> On the other hand non-extensible enumerated types with
>> protocol-internal semantics are probably not anybody's idea of a good
>> basis for defining a new URI scheme.
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>> Where does acct: fall on the implied continuum?  How generic/useful
>> does an identifier scheme have to be before it deserves a URI scheme?
>> Reasonable people may differ.  But, to quote RFC4395,
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>>  "The use and deployment of new URI schemes in the Internet
>>   infrastructure is costly . . . For these reasons, the unbounded
>>   registration of new schemes is harmful.  New URI schemes SHOULD
>>   have clear utility to the broad Internet community." [1]
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> Just out of curiosity, do less stringent arguments hold or URN's.  For
> example:
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> urn:acct:
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And do note that due to failing Henry's parameters, URNs are also pretty
useless in practice, thus the use of http URIs in linked data etc. for the
most part.


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>> So I'm asking for some evidence of clear utility, beyond protocol
>> convenience, for going the URI scheme route.
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>> ht
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>> [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4395#section-2.1
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