[Bug 26866] add support for requesting handles for a vCard field or URI

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26866

--- Comment #48 from Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk> 2010-09-06 04:26:24 PDT ---
One other thing: I wonder whether it'd be worth having a list of well-known
unofficial URI schemes in one of these interfaces, probably Conn.I.Addressing
or Protocol.I.Addressing.

XMPP, SIP etc. are easy, because their URI schemes are proper IANA-registered
ones. However, it might be worth mentioning the de facto URI schemes for the
proprietary protocols, for which see <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme>.

In particular, for the ones that are primarily verb-like and have no noun form
(ymsgr, aim, msnim), we should decide which verb to use as the TargetURI. I
suggest either "add contact" (aim:addbuddy?screenname=foo,
msnim:add?contact=foo at example.com, ymsgr:addfriend?foo) or "send IM"
(aim:goim?screenname=foo, ymsgr:sendIM?foo, msnim:chat?contact=foo at example.com)
as the most representative way to talk about a contact.

(From a quick skim through the list of unofficial URI schemes on Wikipedia, IRC
and Gadu-Gadu have noun-like URIs (like SIP), and Skype has noun-like URIs with
an optional trailing verb (like XMPP), so they're easy to represent.)

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