- From: Jim Conklin <conklin@info.cren.net>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 13:11:10 -0500
- To: ietf-lists@proper.com (Paul Hoffman), uri@bunyip.com
At 4:48 PM 1/2/95 -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote: >In the URL spec, RFC1738, the "mailto" scheme is defined and is described as: > ... >I propose a new scheme, "mailmsg". A "mailmsg" URL takes the form: > > mailmsg:<rfc822-addr-spec>/<subject-text>/<context-text> > ... >- I avoided using the "mailserver" name ... > ... [but] I'd certainly be willing to rename my proposed scheme as >"mailserver" to reuse that name. I'd been having very similar thoughts, Paul, and would encourage this. I'd personally find "<body-text>" or "<message-text>" to be clearer than "<context-text>". I'd also prefer the "mailserver" name for it, because I believe that's a more descriptive name for what's being done with your proposal. I either missed or have repressed the earlier discussion on "mailserver", but I hope it will be possible to use "mailserver" instead of "mailmsg". I had wondered about the desirability of allowing for the specification of required MIME headers in the URL (perhaps part of the earlier discussion), but I agree that the proposal you've made handles everything I know of, so I'm for it. Perhaps if others need that kind of information it could be appended after <context-text>. If no one proposes the need and format specifics, however, I'm not going to. > ... >- I'll put together a formal Internet draft of the proposal (with the >obligatory BNF) after a few days of discussion about this "predraft". If >RFC1738 gets updated in the next year or two, the draft and associated >comments can be folded into it if people here agree that that would be a >Good Thing. Certainly a Good Thing in my book! Thanks! Jim
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