Media/Device Type Spec???

[Jim Gettys]

Note that anything you do must/should obey the generic
syntax requirements now in last call.

See: www.w3.org and
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-fielding-uri-rfc2396bis-06.txt
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-duerst-iri-09.txt

On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 05:03, Dave Cridland wrote:
> On Fri Aug 20 09:24:33 2004, Lars Hallberg wrote:
> > Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > 
> >> On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 13:07, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> >>  
> >>> We don't have a good solution for the "http-URI is actually 
> >>> subversion" problem. For WebDAV we have created a separate 
> >>> webdav-URI to be able to distinguish the different capabilities 
> >>> in comparison to common http.
> >>>    
> >> 
> >> We have the same issue in gnome. For this particular issue we 
> >> added dav:
> >> and davs:
> >>  
> > This is somthing where a standard would be werry usefull! Being 
> > able to past URI between Gnome, KDE, and other environment is a big 
> > win. It will probably help in interprosess messages to, not to have 
> > to handel URI translation between different envioronment in every 
> > second message spec.
> > 
> > 
> Agreed, but such a standard - while it can be created here - ideally 
> needs IETF/IESG approval, and turned into a Real Standard, or else 
> should have no impact at all on applications not following any 
> standard we define here. New, unregistered, schemes are, in my 
> opinion, simply hurting interoperability and locking out applications 
> and desktops which don't follow this spec. That's not, I hope, what 
> we "do".
> 
> Please, leave inventing cool-sounding URI schemes which nothing else 
> understands by default to the likes of Apple and Microsoft - it's a 
> proprietary solution.
> 
> Dave.
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