# Re: irc: [was: New URN suggestion ]

Mandar Mirashi (mandar@kiowa.wildstar.net)
Sun, 18 Aug 1996 01:45:47 -0500 (CDT)

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    Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 01:45:47 -0500 (CDT)

    From: Mandar Mirashi <mandar@kiowa.wildstar.net>

    To: "Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@w3.org>

    Subject: Re: irc: [was: New URN suggestion ]

    In-Reply-To: <199608180439.AAA26481@anansi.w3.org>

    Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.3.93.960818013049.2703A-100000@kiowa.wildstar.net>

Thanks Dan,

The pointers provided were most helpful. I've noticed some
shortcomings in the PICS spec (namely, the alphanumpm restriction,
and the omission of a port number). I'll toss up a working draft and
update the appropriate people.

- Mandar

Mandar Mirashi
Consultant, IBM/ISSC Maintainer: ftp.undernet.org,
Undernet IRC FAQ - ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/alt.irc.undernet
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On Sun, 18 Aug 1996, Daniel W. Connolly wrote:

> In message <32157D30.656A@wildstar.net>, Mandar Mirashi writes:
> >Anyway, IRC developers/users would like the formal specification
> >of a URN of the format irc:// The suggested URL format would
> >be:
> >
> >irc://server/#channelname
> >
> >With the integration of chat, several different companies now
> >use non standard extensions or plugins for irc clients. We'd
> >like to formalize this URL in the same manner as news://
> >mail:// and ftp://
>
> You're not the first to need this. It's written up in the
> PICS specs:
>
>
> ============
> http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/PICS/services.html
>
> URL is as defined in RFC-1738 for URLs. In addition,
> PICS defines the following new form for referencing
> Internet Relay Chat (IRC) rooms:
> URL :: ... | 'irc://' host '/' alphanumpm
> (where host is the usual Internet hostname)
>
> ============
>
> The channel name shouldn't go after #: that's for client-side
> stuff.
>
> If you'd write this up as a stand-alone draft, I'd appreciate
> it! It needn't be long. See, for example, Larry's data:
> scheme:
>
> ftp://ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/internet-drafts/draft-masinter-url-data-01.txt
>
>
> > I'm not sure if this is the right mailing list to send this to.
>
> Actually, this is an HTML mailing list. Can I ask how you found out
> about www-html without finding out about www-talk, uri@bunip.com, or
> the other relavent mailing lists?
>
> For mailing lists relavent to URLs, please see:
>
> Addressing: How do I get Involved?
> http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Addressing/#discussion
>
> I copied www-talk and the uri mailing list.
>
> >Please let me know which committee handles new URL suggestions.
>
> There used to be a Uniform Resource Identifer working group in
> the IETF. It has closed, but the mailing list still exists
> (uri@bunip.com
>
> I keep track of URL schemes at:
>
> http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Addressing/schemes.html
>
> I think Larry Masinter is working on updated URL specs. Stay
> tuned!
>
> Dan
>

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