Re: [apps-discuss] IRC URIs to denote users

On 23 September 2014 01:45, Ira McDonald <blueroofmusic@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Melvin,
>
> The current IANA URI Schemes registry includes the following
> three schemes:
>
> irc prov/irc <http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/prov/irc> irc [
> Dave_Thaler
> <http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/uri-schemes.xhtml#Dave_Thaler>
> ]  irc6 prov/irc6 <http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/prov/irc6>
> irc6 [Dave_Thaler
> <http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/uri-schemes.xhtml#Dave_Thaler>
> ]  ircs prov/ircs <http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/prov/ircs>
> ircs [Dave_Thaler
> <http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/uri-schemes.xhtml#Dave_Thaler>
> ]
> All three of those are September 2012 provisional registrations
> (with references that include butcher and draft-mirashi-url-irc-01).
>

Thanks for the info!

Both the referenced specs seem quite old.  I think there was a time when
Dave Thaler just put a ton of URI specs in the provisional queue, without
necessarily major updates.

It's still not 100% clear what the best pattern is, if any.

Unless there's an objection may I propose:

irc://user@host/

This is very much in line with the work of Ben Young (cc'd)

http://userinfo.me/

Who proposes a neat way to get user profile info via HTTP as:

http://user@host/

I believe the intention of this is to write an RFC, so I'd like to align
future work with that if possible

>
> Cheers,
> - Ira
>
>
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>
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> I was wondering if IRC URIs are standardized at all?
>>
>> The latest I found was :
>>
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-butcher-irc-url-04
>>
>> I have a use case of marking reputation from one system (web chat room)
>> to an IRC chat room, but I require an identifier for the user.
>>
>> The suggestions so far have been:
>>
>> irc://user@host
>> irc://user@host/ -- trailing slash
>> irc:user@host -- similar to xmpp
>> irc://host/#user -- fragment could be problematic as per RFC 9386
>>
>> I've gone with the second option for the moment
>>
>> Any pointers would be most welcome.
>>
>>
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