Re: submission of "draft-wilde-sms-uri-registration-00", "draft-wilde-sms-uri-12", and "draft-wilde-sms-service-12"

Hi Erik,

First, thanks for the effort you're putting into this and apologies if 
it's rather late in the day to say what I'm about to say.

It's a small point but could I make a plea for a less verbose way of 
specifying the body?  It seems redundant to prepend "?body=" before the 
body text. You could instead have a syntax like:

sms-uri         =  scheme ":" sms-recipients [ ":"  sms-body ]
scheme          =  "sms"
sms-recipients  =  sms-recipient *( "," sms-recipient )
sms-recipient   =  gstn-phone sms-qualifier
sms-qualifier   =  *( smsc-qualifier / pid-qualifier )
smsc-qualifier  =  ";smsc=" SMSC-sub-addr
pid-qualifier   =  ";pid=" PID-sub-addr
sms-body        =  query

My main motivation for keeping things short and sweet is that, as you 
may be aware, one of the principal uses for this syntax is to put sms 
messages into 2D barcodes for reading and sending by camera phones (see 
www.activeprint.org). The effective capacity of such a 2D code (given 
current camera phone optics) is about 1-200 bytes so it's nice to be 
"lean and mean".

Cheers,

Tim.

Erik Wilde wrote:
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> 
> 
> 
> hello.
> 
> a uri scheme for sms messages has been under development now for quite 
> some time. the registration process for new uri schems is now defined by 
>  rfc 4395, and thus the drafts have now been prepared for final approval 
> as a registered uri scheme. new drafts have been released today (they 
> will not be accessible for the next days through the ietf channels due 
> to the pre-meeting cut-off and subsequent delay) at the following uris:
> 
> http://dret.net/netdret/docs/draft-wilde-sms-uri-12.txt
> http://dret.net/netdret/docs/draft-wilde-sms-uri-12.html
> http://dret.net/netdret/docs/draft-wilde-sms-service-12.txt
> http://dret.net/netdret/docs/draft-wilde-sms-service-12.html
> 
> the registration draft itself is a new document (a short one), prepared 
> according to the guidelines given in rfc 4395:
> 
> http://dret.net/netdret/docs/draft-wilde-sms-uri-registration-00.txt
> http://dret.net/netdret/docs/draft-wilde-sms-uri-registration-00.html
> 
> any feedback regarding the two older drafts and the new registration 
> draft is greatly appreciated. it is planned to submit all drafts to the 
> ietf as soon as possible for publication respectively registration, 
> targeting the 66th ietf meeting in montreal (summer 2006).
> 
> many thanks and kind regards,
> 
> erik wilde    tel:+41-44-6325132 - fax:+41-44-6321035
>   mailto:net.dret@dret.net - http://dret.net/netdret/
>   computer engineering and networks laboratory  (tik)
>   swiss federal institute of technology zurich (ethz)
> 
> 

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