Re: Registration of acct: as a URI scheme has been requested

On 6/20/12 1:02 PM, Harry Halpin wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk 
> <mailto:ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
>     I think the TAG should look at this.  It raises the general question
>     of the architectural appropriateness of URI schemes intended only for
>     use internally within a particular protocol.  As I understand it acct:
>     URIs have no meaning outside messages in the proposed webfinger
>     protocol.
>
>
> I strongly second this. There is no reason why the "name@domain" can 
> not be just handled as a string to be parsed to get the domain and 
> then do a lookup in SWD/WebFinger. An additional URI scheme in front 
> does not really help the algorithm, as it doesn't need to distinguish 
> between SMTP-enabled names@domains (mailto:) and those that don't/may 
> not ("acct:").
>
> Thus, as "acct:" is not attached to any concrete functionality beyond 
> SMTP (as it does not normatively state state that such as account 
> should be SWD/Webfinger-enabled) AND may even overlap with mailto: 
> names@domains, I don't really see the point. . If we go back to the 
> world where every new application needs a new URI scheme, something 
> has gone wrong.

If the architecture of the world wide web can't accommodate new URI 
schemes then its broken. The great news is that it isn't broken.

I don't agree with your point, cordially.

Kingsley
>
>   cheers,
>      harry
>
>
>
>     ht
>
>
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>     ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>     From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net <mailto:derhoermi@gmx.net>>
>     To: "Paul E. Jones" <paulej@packetizer.com
>     <mailto:paulej@packetizer.com>>
>     Cc: apps-discuss@ietf.org <mailto:apps-discuss@ietf.org>
>     Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 07:51:54 +0200
>     Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] FW: I-D Action:
>     draft-jones-appsawg-webfinger-06.txt
>     * Paul E. Jones wrote:
>     >I have also sent a request to the email address specified for URI
>     scheme
>     >review to try to move registration of "acct" along.  I hope that
>     will not
>     >take long, and I would hope it would not considering the specific
>     and narrow
>     >scope of "acct".
>
>     http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/uri-review/current/msg01605.html
>     if
>     anyone wants to follow along.
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