RE: Documenting URI schemes

> (a title like "The 'irc' URI scheme" is quite clear)

This example has always fascinated me. Since RFC 1459 for the IRC protocol
was issued back in May 1993 (over 10 years ago,  if my counting is right),
and no URI scheme has yet been registered with the IANA AFAIK, while clearly
the protocol is of a certain utility on the Internet, and URIs are also
routinely divvied up e.g. on #rdfig (as <irc://irc.freenode.net/rdfig>) -
and we are always being chided to name Webby types of things (er,
'resources') vis URIs - what does this say to a layman about the importance
of URI? (Maybe, it's just not important.)

Tony

  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: uri-request@w3.org [mailto:uri-request@w3.org] On 
> Behalf Of Etan Wexler
> Sent: 10 August 2004 11:14
> To: uri@w3.org
> Subject: Documenting URI schemes
> 
> 
> 
> Consider the following as guidelines for dealing with the many 
> undocumented or poorly documented URI schemes.
> 
> * For documentation of unregistered or ill-defined schemes, use 
> Informational-series ("FYI") Requests for Comments (RFC). Or use W3C 
> group Notes.
> 
> * Maintain a one-to-one correspondence between current documents and 
> URI schemes. (The planned splitting of the scheme documentation in 
> rfc1738bis is a Good Thing.) Resist the temptation to combine scheme 
> documentation. Separate documents allow for better searching (a title 
> like "The 'irc' URI scheme" is quite clear) and for stronger metadata 
> (obsoleting rather than updating).
> 
> * Maintain a usage document separate from all particular scheme 
> documents. The usage document (again, an FYI or Note) would list the 
> following data for each scheme, whether registered, unregistered, 
> IETF-blessed, poorly documented, or whatever.
> 
>      * Name.
>      * Level of use (say, "pervasive", "common", "rare").
>      * Expected change in level of use.
>      * Reference to scheme-specific documentation.
> 
> * Update the usage document regularly. What would be an appropriate 
> interval? A year? Two years?
> 
> -- 
> Etan Wexler.
> 
> 



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