On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Karl Dubost <[email protected]> wrote: > > Le 15 oct. 2012 à 10:30, Ted Hardie a écrit : >> There are flocks of URLs/URIs in use outside the web > > (thinking out loud) just to be sure to understand, could you give example of > URLs/URIs. I guess maybe things like "mailto:";, etc. >
As you note, mailto is widely used, as are tel and sip; other schemes, like xmpp, are widely used within their contexts. > >> and there needs to be a very basic agreement of whether the development of >> common methods for parsing and other handling *across the web and non-web >> use cases* is a goal or a non-goal. > > It would be interesting to know what kind of issues have for example other > softwares (MUA, RDF parser, etc.) be on the Web or not. Maybe the Web is not > the right characterization. Maybe it is Internet vs Filesystem. Or maybe it > is offline, online or a combination or something else. > > I have a tendency to think also that our highly networked society makes all > these things not isolated at all. Everything permeates at a point. > I agree that isolated them so that URIs seen in one context stayed in that context is difficult; it's one of the reasons I believe that there should not be a fork of web-context URIs from non-web-context URIs. regards, Ted Hardie > > > -- > Karl Dubost > Montréal, QC, Canada > http://www.la-grange.net/karl/ >
