Re: [Uri-review] Internet-Draft: Using URIs With Multiple Transport Stacks

ht@inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson) Fri, 07 July 2017 15:15 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Uri-review] Internet-Draft: Using URIs With Multiple Transport Stacks
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Dave Thaler writes:

> Recently we've seen multiple requests (including from three different
> SDOs) and discussions on different lists regarding using URI schemes
> for application-layer protocols that can operate over multiple
> transport stacks (e.g., UDP, TCP, websockets, HTTP, etc.). This draft
> summarizes the various technical discussions and issues raised.
>
> Not sure if there is any regular meeting time available at IETF, but I
> at least wanted to share this more broadly for visibility, and to
> solicit additional feedback.

The W3C TAG devoted a fair amount of effort to this issue about 12 years
ago, and our thinking at the time (2005) is recorded here:

  https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/SchemeProtocols.html

which may provide a useful independent perspective, albeit somewhat
dated in some respects.

ht
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