[Standards] LAST CALL: XEP-0048 (Bookmarks)

[Dave Cridland]

On Thu Oct 18 23:40:15 2007, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> Dave Cridland wrote:
> > On Wed Oct  3 21:39:36 2007, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> >> http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/tmp/xep-0048-1.1.html
> > > Two comments I think need to be addressed relatively urgently:
> 
> <snip/>
> 
> Let us know if you think version 1.1pre4 addresses your concerns:
> 
> http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/tmp/xep-0048-1.1.html
> 
> http://svn.xmpp.org:18080/browse/XMPP/trunk/extensions/xep-0048.xml?r1=1260&r2=1298
> 
> 
Kind of... Certainly the password element being deprecated is  
addressed. But you're still hung up on web pages being the only use  
of URLs.


> Or, well, you're an XMPP Council member, you can weigh in at the  
> next
> meeting:
> 
> http://www.xmpp.org/council/agendas/2007-10-24.html
> 
> 
Yep. But then again, it's so much easier to sort out things here and  
now rather than deploy nuclear weaponry. :-)

> > 1) The document says it's defining a data format to store XMPP
> > conference rooms and "HTTP URLs" - is there any problem with  
> storing
> > other scheme URLs? I can't see a reason for this restriction.

You've at least allowed https, but you're still saying "web pages".  
URIs are much bigger than that, and a whole heap more interesting.

Instead of making a huge long post here, I'll do one on my blog  
instead:

http://blog.dave.cridland.net/?p=40

I hope that gives some food for thought.

Dave.
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