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Re: Overuse of strings Lauri Alanko (24 Jan 2006 17:59 UTC)
Re: Overuse of strings Per Bothner (24 Jan 2006 19:51 UTC)
Re: Overuse of strings Alan Bawden (25 Jan 2006 00:44 UTC)
Re: Overuse of strings Alex Shinn (25 Jan 2006 01:39 UTC)
Re: Overuse of strings Per Bothner (25 Jan 2006 02:04 UTC)
Re: Overuse of strings Alan Bawden (25 Jan 2006 02:50 UTC)
Re: Overuse of strings Lauri Alanko (25 Jan 2006 18:19 UTC)
Re: Overuse of strings Neil Van Dyke (25 Jan 2006 19:07 UTC)
Re: Overuse of strings bear (25 Jan 2006 22:40 UTC)
Re: Overuse of strings Lauri Alanko (26 Jan 2006 07:35 UTC)
Re: Overuse of strings Alex Shinn (26 Jan 2006 01:37 UTC)
Re: Overuse of strings Neil Van Dyke (26 Jan 2006 02:03 UTC)
Re: Overuse of strings Anton van Straaten (26 Jan 2006 10:09 UTC)
Re: Overuse of strings Lauri Alanko (26 Jan 2006 10:25 UTC)
Re: Overuse of strings Alex Shinn (26 Jan 2006 02:17 UTC)
Re: Overuse of strings Ray Blaak (26 Jan 2006 06:56 UTC)

Re: Overuse of strings Alex Shinn 26 Jan 2006 01:37 UTC

On 1/26/06, Neil Van Dyke <xxxxxx@neilvandyke.org> wrote:
>
> [...] I imagine that W3C- and IETF-types would have
> comments wrt the authority component of the URI if the "scheme"
> URI-scheme were proposed.  I suspect some would question whether or not
> a new URI-scheme is needed, which might beg other questions.

The recommended approach would probably be to use a URN (rfc2141):

  urn:scheme://r6rs

Of course, you'd then need to register the "scheme" namespace identifier,
but this is less obtrusive than a "scheme" URI-scheme, and after all we're
talking about names, not locations.

--
Alex