OK, sounds useful enough - in a previous email from Cullen on this topic (with his AD hat), he suggested emailing the APPS Area list ([email protected]) since rfc3986 is in their camp.
-hadriel > -----Original Message----- > From: Theo Zourzouvillys [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 7:36 PM > > > How does it affect anything for common URI formats not to comply with > it? > > We'd be saying that a SIP URI is no longer guaranteed to be compatible > with the generic URI syntax, and there in lies dragons. > > While it would unlikely have any direct effect on SIP elements > themselves, there are a whole bunch of assumptions made (and we should > be able to continue to make) around a SIP URI being compatible with > the syntax of a URI, notably in 3rd party tools. some things that > spring to mind that would be affected are: > > - XML Schema syntax for a URI > - in <a href="xxx"> - i.e, any hyperlink on a HTML page. > - PHP (or any other language) parse_uri() > - draft-roach-sip-http-subscribe Link header values > - subjectAltName URI in a SSL certificate > - a RDBMS "URI" data type > > ... being able to put a SIP URI anywhere that there is a "URI" field > is a fairly useful thing for developers when it comes to re-usability > > even worse, anything that presumes they are a URI will work most the > time, until an IPv6 address is used. > > > (or really, for *it* not to comply with common URI formats) > > i'm not sure how many other common URI formats have notably been > affected by the missing IPv6 yet: the lack of universal IPv6 > deployment along with SIP being fairly likely to want to include > literal IPv6 addresses in the URI makes it more obvious for us to > notice other other schemes, so perhaps we're just ahead of the game? > > ~ Theo _______________________________________________ Sip mailing list https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/sip This list is for NEW development of the core SIP Protocol Use [email protected] for questions on current sip Use [email protected] for new developments on the application of sip
