URI registries and schemes

hello john.

>> really? you surely know http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes.html 
>> and there must be some reason why you don't think that's a reliable 
>> registry. enlighten us.
> It's radically incomplete and doesn't reflect the Real World,
> only those people who have bothered to write RFCs for their schemes.
> There's another list of schemes, more comprehensive but marked obsolete,
> at http://www.w3.org/Addressing/schemes.html .  There is no list that
> is both normative and comprehensive.

so i guess i was naive to just point to the iana list. could you point 
out some omissions of the iana list and the w3c list and some that are 
in none of both lists? i really would like to get an impression of how 
radically incomplete and detached from the Real World they are. thanks.

>> i am still unconvinced that binding resource semantics to a domain name 
>> and tunnel that through http is a good thing. not if you think that the 
>> semantics should be explicit and universally usable.
> No tunneling is required, and the semantics are just as explicit and
> universally available one way as the other.  It's just handier to be
> able to type the URI into a browser and get something instead of
> "Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol
> (geoloc) isn't associated with any program."

could you please point out a "uri scheme" that has been deployed this 
way (well-defined semantics bound to uris made available on specific 
http servers with well-defined dns names and some well-defined pattern 
to the uri's paths), i am really wondering where this has happened. and 
where it happened in a way that not just is done by some self-interested 
company, but instead in the way you were hinting at: some community 
effort which is not limited to just one server, and can be used by 
anybody interested in providing access to resources of the kind that are 
made available there. i honestly cannot think of such an example, but i 
am sure you do have something in mind.

thanks,

dret.

Received on Wednesday, 12 December 2007 05:10:30 UTC