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

On 26 September 2014 at 20:49, Dave Thaler <dthaler@microsoft.com> wrote:

> Those registrations were part of the “URI Bulk Third-Party Registration
> Experiment”.
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> For more info on that experiment, see the slides from IETF 85:
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> http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/85/slides/slides-85-iri-8.pdf
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I just noticed ircv3

http://ircv3.net/

Perhaps worth continuing this discussion there?

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> -Dave
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> *From:* apps-discuss [mailto:apps-discuss-bounces@ietf.org] *On Behalf Of
> *Melvin Carvalho
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 23, 2014 4:55 AM
> *To:* Ira McDonald; Benjamin Young
> *Cc:* Apps Discuss
> *Subject:* Re: [apps-discuss] IRC URIs to denote users
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> On 23 September 2014 01:45, Ira McDonald <blueroofmusic@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Melvin,
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> The current IANA URI Schemes registry includes the following
> three schemes:
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> irc
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> prov/irc <http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/prov/irc>
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> irc
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> [Dave_Thaler
> <http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/uri-schemes.xhtml#Dave_Thaler>
> ]
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> irc6
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> prov/irc6 <http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/prov/irc6>
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> irc6
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> [Dave_Thaler
> <http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/uri-schemes.xhtml#Dave_Thaler>
> ]
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> ircs
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> prov/ircs <http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/prov/ircs>
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> ircs
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> [Dave_Thaler
> <http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/uri-schemes.xhtml#Dave_Thaler>
> ]
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> All three of those are September 2012 provisional registrations
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> (with references that include butcher and draft-mirashi-url-irc-01).
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> Thanks for the info!
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> 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.
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> It's still not 100% clear what the best pattern is, if any.
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> Unless there's an objection may I propose:
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> irc://user@host/
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> This is very much in line with the work of Ben Young (cc'd)
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> http://userinfo.me/
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> Who proposes a neat way to get user profile info via HTTP as:
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> http://user@host/
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> I believe the intention of this is to write an RFC, so I'd like to align
> future work with that if possible
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> Cheers,
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> - Ira
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> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> I was wondering if IRC URIs are standardized at all?
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> The latest I found was :
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> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-butcher-irc-url-04
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> 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.
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> The suggestions so far have been:
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> irc://user@host
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> irc://user@host/ -- trailing slash
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> irc:user@host -- similar to xmpp
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> irc://host/#user -- fragment could be problematic as per RFC 9386
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> I've gone with the second option for the moment
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> Any pointers would be most welcome.
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