[Uri-review] URI scheme for postal addresses?

[Nicholas Humfrey <[e-mail]>]

Hello,

In ETSI TS 102 818, in Appendix A there is a URI scheme for postal addresses:
https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_ts/102800_102899/102818/03.04.01_60/ts_102818v030401p.pdf

I was surprised to discover that this isn’t defined anywhere else.
Is there any interest in defining this in an RFC?

I also registered the following URI schemes provisionally and had intended to submit an RFC for them; but have not got around to it yet: dab, fm, amms, drm


Thanks,

Nicholas Humfrey



This clause defines a URI scheme for defining postal addresses.
The format is a URI-compliant and case insensitive string in the form:

    addressuri = "postal:" addressdata
    addressdata = segment *("/" segment)
    segment = *urlchar urlchar = unreserved | escaped

Either the most generalized part OR the most localized part of the address should come first (depending on the postal scheme practices of the target country), separating each main fragment with a slash ("/"), through the hierarchy until the most localized/generalized resource is reached. unreserved and escaped are defined in IETF RFC 3986.

NOTE:
Where "/" is needed as a character in the address (e.g. "20/22 High St") it should be encoded as the hex equivalent (i.e. "%2F").

EXAMPLE:
postal:Creative%20Technologies/1%20Passage%20Street/Bristol/ BS2%200JF/United%20Kingdom/