- From: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
- Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:19:39 -0400
- To: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Cc: bob@sporkmonger.com, Kristof Zelechovski <giecrilj@stegny.2a.pl>, uri-review@ietf.org, uri@w3.org
On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 00:27 -0400, John Cowan wrote: > David Booth scripsit: > > > Getting a scheme registered is the *easy* part. The hard part is > > getting millions of installed clients to implement the special > > recognition of that scheme. > > No harder than getting them to recognize a load-ssh-protocol-driver > meta-scheme. I disagree. If a client doesn't recognize a new scheme, the user has little choice but to search around for an implementation or hope that the client vendor adds support for it in the future. But if an http URI is used, the URI (as a fallback) could dereference directly to a page providing information about those new URIs, where to download client software that supports them, and -- potentially -- even attempt to auto-download a client extension for them. This certainly seems like it would encourage faster adoption. -- David Booth, Ph.D. Cleveland Clinic (contractor) Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Cleveland Clinic.
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