Re: [Uri-review] ssh URI

David Booth <david@dbooth.org> Tue, 13 October 2009 01:12 UTC

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On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 19:51 -0400, Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
> On 12 Oct 2009 at 21:35, Kristof Zelechovski wrote:
> 
> > David, you do not see a need to define a new URI scheme for anything, do
> > you?.  If I you do, please enumerate the requirements for a protocol that
> > would save it from the http black hole.
> 
> It does seem to be an ideological position for some.

Excuse me?  By piggy-backing on http URIs, you can get easier, faster
adoption with more user-friendly fallback behavior.   To my mind that's
an engineering concern -- not an idealogical position.  

 

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David Booth, Ph.D.
Cleveland Clinic (contractor)

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