what about adding mailto: irc: aim: to the mime specification

[Dave Cridland]

On Sat Aug  7 15:30:22 2004, Kristof Vansant wrote:
> What about adding mailto: irc: aim: to the mime specification.

a) It's not MIME, it's URI. URIs and MIME media types are wildly 
different and orthogonal things - URIs do not always resolve or refer 
to objects with a MIME type, as your three suggestions show.

b) Two of those are things you invented - URI scheme names are 
standardised.

c) An irc scheme, if registered, would probably look more like 
irc://[nickname@]/server/url-encoded-channel - or possibly 
irc:[nickname@]url-encoded-network-name/url-encoded-channel

Dave.