# URLs and a private scheme type

Tom Sears (TSEARS@csi.compuserve.com)
03 Jan 95 15:38:54 EST

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    Date: 03 Jan 95 15:38:54 EST

    From: Tom Sears <TSEARS@csi.compuserve.com>

    To: uri working group <uri@bunyip.com>

    Subject: URLs and a private scheme type

    Message-Id: <CSI_6087-111466@CompuServe.COM>

Happy New Year All,

Section 4 of RFC 1738 lists several new schemes that are under consideration
for the standard URL syntax. Would there also be a benefit from adding
a "private" scheme? This private scheme would reserve the namespace for
general use with very few semantic restrictions other than a scope within
which the URL is valid. Different organizations could use this "private"
namespace internally without worrying about name conflicts with others.
CompuServe is currently investigating using the URI architecture and this
scheme would definitely be a very convenient addition for accessing and
managing internal resources. This would allow us (or whoever) to use one
system to handle the naming of both internal and external resources. The
"private" scheme could have completely different semantics to another
organization for example. Although the "private" scheme namespace would be
reservered globally, it would only be valid within the domain (I am assuming
use of DNS) of the resource provider.

An example might be...

<URL:private:compuserve.com/some_opaque_string_only_meaningful_to_CS>

whereas another one might be...

<URL:private:att.com/some_opaque_string_only_meaningful_to_ATT>

and so on....

so with that said...Is this a reasonable request? Are there alternative
suggestions? Would such an addition be valuable to others?

Thanks

Tom

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