Re: [Uri-review] ssh URI

John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> Tue, 13 October 2009 04:27 UTC

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David Booth scripsit:

> Getting a scheme registered is the *easy* part.  The hard part is
> getting millions of installed clients to implement the special
> recognition of that scheme.

No harder than getting them to recognize a load-ssh-protocol-driver
meta-scheme.

-- 
Eric Raymond is the Margaret Mead               John Cowan
of the Open Source movement.                    cowan@ccil.org
        --Bruce Perens,                         http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
          some years ago