[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 #50 from Eitan Isaacson <eitan.isaacson at collabora.co.uk> 2010-09-06 12:07:21 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #48)
> 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.)

I'll add this to Protocol.I.Addressing.AddressableURISchemes.

About the verby schemes, maybe it should be clear that the verb (hostname) is
ignored and that a contact query is required. For example in msnim a
"contact=", in aol a "screenname=", and in ymsgr any verb that takes a yahooid
as a query.

IRC only seems to work in the context of servers and channels and not contacts,
so I don't think it should be included.

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