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Re: [Uri-review] [apps-discuss] XMPP jabber: URI scheme not registered?

"Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr)" <jhildebr@cisco.com> Mon, 26 November 2012 20:27 UTC

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From: "Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr)" <jhildebr@cisco.com>
To: Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, "xmpp@ietf.org" <xmpp@ietf.org>
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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:27:52 +0000
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Subject: Re: [Uri-review] [apps-discuss] XMPP jabber: URI scheme not registered?
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Looping the XMPP wg list.  If we register it, let's make sure that
registration says "DO NOT USE IN THE FUTURE".

On 11/26/12 11:50 AM, "Peter Saint-Andre" <stpeter@stpeter.im> wrote:

>On 11/26/12 9:37 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
>> On 2012-11-26 16:28, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>> Hash: SHA1
>>>
>>> On 11/25/12 5:04 AM, Graham Klyne wrote:
>>>> I've just been digging around the XMPP specs, and I notive they
>>>> make reference to required namespaces of the form "jabber:client"
>>>> and "jabber:server" (cf.
>>>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3920#section-11.2, esp sect 11.2.2).
>>>>
>>>> Examples in sections 8 and 9 of that spec reinforce the indication
>>>> that jabber: is being used as a URI scheme (rather than a namespace
>>>> prefix).
>>>
>>> The 'jabber:' string was used in the earliest days of the jabberd
>>> server project when the core developers didn't really understand XML
>>> namespaces (which were quite new at the time). It is not a URI scheme,
>>> just a mistake. :)
>>>
>>>> But looking at http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes.html I'm
>>>> not seeing any mention of jabber:.
>>>>
>>>> Assuming I'm reading this right... it's probably unfortunate that
>>>> that this use of jabber: has come about (like dav: before it?) but
>>>> I guess it's now entrenched and should at least be registered?
>>>
>>> I have never registered it and I hesitate to do so now because I think
>>> it would cause more confusion than it's worth. We do have the 'xmpp:'
>>> URI scheme for pointing to JabberIDs.
>>> ...
>> 
>> I think it would still be good to have it in the registry, and have the
>> documentation explain what's going on.
>> 
>> I believe the "DAV:" scheme was created for the same purpose, and we
>> have documented that in
>> <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc4918.html#rfc.section.21.1>.
>
>Thanks for the pointer. And yes, as with "DAV:", the "jabber:" prefix
>was defined before standard best practices emerged for XML namespaces...
>
>Peter
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