[Standards] [xmppwg] encapsulating NodeIDs in XMPP URIs

[Dave Cridland]

On Wed Dec 12 15:49:10 2007, Ralph Meijer wrote:
> In line with XEP-0147, I would like to register the empty string as  
> a
> XMPP URI/IRI Querytype for the purpose of pointing to a specific  
> note
> without implying a particular action.

Actually, this strikes me as particularly good.

URIs are, supposedly, used for addressing an object. However, the  
resolution of a URI - getting at the object data - usually supposes a  
particular action be used. In some cases, where URIs don't provide a  
useful action, this is a pain. "http" scheme URIs suffer from this,  
because we can't say "Open this URI as a WebDAV collection", or  
"Checkout this resource as a DeltaV working copy".

But sometimes it's very useful to use a URI purely as an address, and  
"xmpp" scheme URIs do suffer from the problem that there usually *is*  
an explicit action.

So I quite like the notion of using the empty query type as an  
explicit action of no action - addressing a node is one such case,  
but I suspect there may be others. (Maybe not today, maybe not  
tomorrow, etc)

Dave.
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