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

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Mon, 26 November 2012 16:03 UTC

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

Peter

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