Re: irc: [was: New URN suggestion ]

Thanks Dan,

     The pointers provided were most helpful. I've noticed some
shortcomings in the PICS spec (namely, the alphanumpm restriction,
and the omission of a port number). I'll toss up a working draft and
update the appropriate people.

							- Mandar

Mandar Mirashi  
Consultant, IBM/ISSC          Maintainer: ftp.undernet.org, 
Undernet IRC FAQ  - ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/alt.irc.undernet
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On Sun, 18 Aug 1996, Daniel W. Connolly wrote:

> In message <32157D30.656A@wildstar.net>, Mandar Mirashi writes:
> >Anyway, IRC developers/users would like the formal specification
> >of a URN of the format  irc://   The suggested URL format would
> >be:
> >
> >irc://server/#channelname
> >
> >With the integration of chat, several different companies now
> >use non standard extensions or plugins for irc clients. We'd
> >like to formalize this URL in the same manner as  news://
> >mail:// and ftp://
> 
> You're not the first to need this. It's written up in the
> PICS specs:
> 
> 
> ============
> http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/PICS/services.html
> 
> URL is as defined in RFC-1738 for URLs. In addition,
>    PICS defines the following new form for referencing
>    Internet Relay Chat (IRC) rooms:
>    URL :: ... | 'irc://' host '/' alphanumpm 
>        (where host is the usual Internet hostname)
> 
> ============
> 
> The channel name shouldn't go after #: that's for client-side
> stuff.
> 
> If you'd write this up as a stand-alone draft, I'd appreciate
> it! It needn't be long. See, for example, Larry's data:
> scheme:
> 
> ftp://ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/internet-drafts/draft-masinter-url-data-01.txt
> 
> 
> >   I'm not sure if this is the right mailing list to send this to.
> 
> Actually, this is an HTML mailing list. Can I ask how you found out
> about www-html without finding out about www-talk, uri@bunip.com, or
> the other relavent mailing lists?
> 
> For mailing lists relavent to URLs, please see:
> 
> 	Addressing: How do I get Involved?
> 	http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Addressing/#discussion
> 
> I copied www-talk and the uri mailing list.
> 
> >Please let me know which committee handles new URL suggestions.
> 
> There used to be a Uniform Resource Identifer working group in
> the IETF. It has closed, but the mailing list still exists
> (uri@bunip.com
> 
> I keep track of URL schemes at:
> 
> http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Addressing/schemes.html
> 
> I think Larry Masinter is working on updated URL specs. Stay
> tuned!
> 
> Dan
>