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

[Peter Saint-Andre <[e-mail]>]

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On 11/26/12 8:28 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> 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.

Alexey pointed out to me offlist that these old 'jabber:*' strings are
used in URI slots (as XML namespaces), so we probably do need to
register this "scheme". Sigh. I'll take care of that.

Peter

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