inventing URI schemes considered harmful (was: e-book reader)

[Yoric]

I'll take a look at these documents, thanks. Or [yet] another look, for
the RFCs.

Still, as far as I am concerned, library has a different
* notion of identifiers
* relation between identifiers and resources
* delivery mechanism
as http.

Cheers,
 David

On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 11:40 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> "New URI Schemes: 99% Harmful"
> <http://infomesh.net/2001/09/urischemes>
> 
> A specification SHOULD reuse an existing URI scheme (rather than create
> a new one) when it provides the desired properties of identifiers and
> their relation to resources.
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#URI-scheme>
> 
> If you're positive that you need a new URI scheme, please do it
> properly: consult <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2717.txt> and
> <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2718.txt> for details.