Re: [apps-discuss] FW: New Version Notification for draft-thaler-uri-scheme-reg-ps-00.txt

Hi,

Sorry I'm a bit late to the party here.

(Disclosure: I'm the "expert" reviewer.)

I agree with your premise that the URI scheme registration process doesn't scale 
*if* every application is registered as a separate URI scheme.

I think this suggests a deeper conflict than just the registration process.  Web 
architecture is conceived using a global namespace of URIs, and (for reasons 
covered in RFC4395) adding new schemes in that context can be expensive.

The scenario you raise is one of *local* use of URIs to invoke applications on a 
platform.  It might be argued that this is an abuse of URI schemes, but there is 
clearly some local utility in doing this.  If, in the spirit of "rough consensus 
and running code", we allow such use, how is this to be balanced with the 
concerns of the global web, for which URIs have been defined in the first place?

The web is about content as much, if not more, than about protocols. And URIs 
are part of that content, not just elements in the protocols that drive Web 
interactions.

As reviewer, one question I ask myself when I review a URI scheme registration 
request is "what does this URI identify?".  That's hard to answer coherently 
when it is being used as a protocol trick to fire up an application. 
(Personally, I'd prefer to see application invocation handled more in the style 
of Web Intents (http://www.w3.org/TR/web-intents/) than tying them to URI schemes.)

So my question is: should we promote this proliferation of URI schemes to fire 
up applications?  If so, how are we to reconcile this use with the needs of the 
Web as a global information system?

#g
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On 10/10/2013 15:51, Dave Thaler wrote:
> This is relevant to appsawg.  Comments welcome.
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> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 7:47 AM
> To: Dave Thaler
> Subject: New Version Notification for draft-thaler-uri-scheme-reg-ps-00.txt
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> A new version of I-D, draft-thaler-uri-scheme-reg-ps-00.txt
> has been successfully submitted by Dave Thaler and posted to the IETF repository.
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> Filename:	 draft-thaler-uri-scheme-reg-ps
> Revision:	 00
> Title:		 Guidelines and Registration Procedures for New URI Schemes: Problem Statement
> Creation date:	 2013-10-10
> Group:		 Individual Submission
> Number of pages: 6
> URL:             http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-thaler-uri-scheme-reg-ps-00.txt
> Status:          http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-thaler-uri-scheme-reg-ps
> Htmlized:        http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-thaler-uri-scheme-reg-ps-00
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> Abstract:
>     This document describes some problems with the existing guidelines
>     and procedures, as documented in RFC 4395, for new URI schemes.
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