- From: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@imc.org>
- Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 11:17:05 -0800
- To: uri-review@ietf.org, uri@w3.org
At 9:15 AM +0100 11/9/06, Julian Reschke wrote: >You need to install software on your machine (not in the browser) >that knows how to handle "tel" URIs. I believe that even if the machine has software for handling "tel" URIs, that software will not "obtain a representation" of a phone number: it will initiate a phone call. At 10:11 AM +0000 11/9/06, Graham Klyne wrote: >I'd say "yes" to (at least) all the mailto: cases. Someone else >described this >better, but roughly the resource in case is a mail submission form. Ah, hang >on, there's one with your name on it: >[[ > A mailto URL designates an "internet resource", which is the mailbox > specified in the address. When additional headers are supplied, the > resource designated is the same address, but with an additional > profile for accessing the resource. While there are Internet > resources that can only be accessed via electronic mail, the mailto > URL is not intended as a way of retrieving such objects > automatically. >]] >-- http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2368.txt It may be "better", but I consider handwaving to achieve consensus to justify a decision that had been made earlier. >I *do* get a representation (presented, as it happens, in my mail >client) when I >enter this URI into my browser: > > mailto:example@example.org?body=hello It is a representation, but it is a representation of a message, not of an internet resource, IMO.
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