Re: URIs, URLs, and URNs: phone:// IS obsolete

Hello Matthew,

Many thanks for the catch. That some uri scheme gets used somewhere
doesn't mean it's not obsolete. One core goal of uris is to have
a single format for a single functionality. Having two different
schemes for one and the same thing is a bad idea.

'tel:' is standards track (RFC 2806). I have difficulties
understanding where VoiceXML got the 'phone:' thing from.
I have informed the Voice Browser WG of the problem.
For some background, now history, on why it is tel and not phone, please see
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-international/1998AprJun/0029.html.

Regards,  Martin.

At 18:11 01/09/25 +0100, Matthew Wilson wrote:
>The document "URIs, URLs, and URNs: Clarifications and Recommendations 
>1.0" (http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/NOTE-uri-clarification-20010921/) suggests 
>that '"phone", is obsolete, superceded by "tel"'. But "phone" is used by 
>VoiceXML, http://www.w3.org/TR/voicexml/ : see the example in section 14.7.
>
>Matthew Wilson

Received on Wednesday, 26 September 2001 01:51:24 UTC