- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 10:15:18 -0500 (EST)
- To: paf@cisco.com (Patrik Fältström)
- Cc: discuss@apps.ietf.org
> This is the main reason why I want to have an easy process for registering > URI schemes. People use URI schemes anyway, regardless of whether they are > registered or not. I want to register all schemes, because it gives an > ability to have a security consideration section which talk about the > issues with the scheme. That's quite reasonable, but it doesn't change the fact that people (and software) expect to be able to resolve URI without consequence. Pointing them to a RFC saying "see, you really shouldn't have done that" is not very helpful after the fact. 8-) 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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