Re: IPP> regarding "ipp:" (I spoke too soon...)

[Keith Moore <[e-mail]>]

> My fundamental objection is that we are being asked to use a new concept
> 'psuedo-schemes' without this idea being drilled into at all. There should
> at least be an I-Draft discussing the idea.

Actually, it's the other way around.  IPP is designing a new protocol.
It happens to look a lot like HTTP, and there's no problem with that.
But the notion that IPP can insist that their protocol should use 
the same URL type as an existing protocol, is a significant departure 
from well-established practice that requires substantial justification.  
 
> Secondly there were many details that needed to be clarified. Was this
> simply a client convenience or did 'ipp:' ever go over the wire being the
> deepest one. The general idea seems to be that it is a user convenience
> thing. 

No, ipp: needs to go over the wire in all of the IPP protocol elements.

> In this case it is a client implementation issue and has nothing to
> do with the wire protocol (which is what this discussion is about) and so
> should not be accepted. 

It's not just a client implementation issue; it affects servers also.

Nearly every new protocol these days gets a new URL type.  
The issues with use of ipp: are no worse than for any other protocol.

Keith