# protocol keyword for telephone-accessible urls

Suresh Krishnajois (sujo@netcom.com)
Mon, 22 Aug 1994 17:01:02 -0700 (PDT)

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    From: sujo@netcom.com (Suresh Krishnajois)

    Message-Id: <199408230001.RAA18161@netcom17.netcom.com>

    Subject: protocol keyword for telephone-accessible urls

    To: uri@bunyip.com

    Date: Mon, 22 Aug 1994 17:01:02 -0700 (PDT)

Hi,

Self intro first. I'm a 3d-graphics, GUI software consultant, working
for Silicon Valley cos such as SiliconGraphics, Sun etc. My interest
in the WWW is it's potential as a generic model even for info networks
not based on the internet or tcp-ip centric protocols.

In this context, I wish to know if there has been any discussions or
proposals to designate or reserve some keywords in the protocol
portion of a URL to signify non-internet info servers accessible via
non-tcp-ip based protocols. One example could be a phone number for
a variety of dialup services such as BBS, fax-back etc. So, a URL
for a document accessible via phone could look like:
phone://<accescode-phone_number>/<document_id>

This might already have been formalized, and if so, please pardon my
ignorance. Otherwise, what does this forum think of this idea.

Thanks,
- Suresh

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