Network Working Group E. Wilde Internet-Draft Swiss Federal Institute of Expires: September 14, 2006 Technology Mar 13, 2006 Registration Request for SMS URI Scheme draft-wilde-sms-uri-registration-00 Status of this Memo By submitting this Internet-Draft, each author represents that any applicable patent or other IPR claims of which he or she is aware have been or will be disclosed, and any of which he or she becomes aware will be disclosed, in accordance with Section 6 of BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt. The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. This Internet-Draft will expire on September 14, 2006. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2006). Abstract This memo requests the registration of the Universal Resource Identifier (URI) scheme "sms" for specifying a recipient (and optionally a gateway) for an SMS message. SMS messages are two-way paging messages that can be sent from and received by a mobile phone or a suitably equipped computer. Wilde Expires September 14, 2006 [Page 1] Internet-Draft SMS URI Scheme Mar 2006 Table of Contents 1. URI Scheme Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. URI Scheme Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4. URI Scheme Semantics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 5. Encoding Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 6. Applications/Protocols that use this URI Scheme Name . . . . . 3 7. Interoperability Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 9. Contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 10. Author/Change Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 11. Change Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 12. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 12.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 12.2. Non-Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Appendix A. Where to send Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Appendix B. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . . . . 7 Wilde Expires September 14, 2006 [Page 2] Internet-Draft SMS URI Scheme Mar 2006 1. URI Scheme Name sms 2. Status Provisional 3. URI Scheme Syntax See [draft-wilde-sms-uri-12]. 4. URI Scheme Semantics The "sms" URI scheme defines a URI scheme which does not directly address a resource. Thus, the usual operations that may be performed on resources do not apply. Instead, the "sms" defines a way how a message may be composed which is then transmitted using the SMS message transmission method. This scheme can thus be compared to be "mailto" URI scheme [RFC2368]. See [draft-wilde-sms-uri-12] for the details of operation. 5. Encoding Considerations The optional body field of "sms" URIs may contain a message text, but this text uses percent-encoded UTF-8 characters and thus can always be represented using URI characters. See [draft-wilde-sms-uri-12] for the details of encoding. 6. Applications/Protocols that use this URI Scheme Name The "sms" URI scheme is intended to be used in a similar way as the "mailto" URI scheme [RFC2368]. By using "sms" URIs, authors can embed information into documents which can be used as a starting point for initiating message composition. Whether the client is sending the message itself (for example over a GSM air interface) or redirecting the user to a third party for message composition (such as a Web service for sending SMS messages) is outside of the scope of the URI scheme definition. 7. Interoperability Considerations Wilde Expires September 14, 2006 [Page 3] Internet-Draft SMS URI Scheme Mar 2006 No interoperability issues have been identified. 8. Security Considerations See [draft-wilde-sms-uri-12]. 9. Contact Erik Wilde Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH-Zentrum 8092 Zurich Switzerland tel:+41-44-6325132 fax:+41-44-6321035 mailto:erik.wilde@dret.net 10. Author/Change Controller Erik Wilde Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH-Zentrum 8092 Zurich Switzerland tel:+41-44-6325132 fax:+41-44-6321035 mailto:erik.wilde@dret.net 11. Change Log This section will not be part of the final RFC text, it serves as a container to collect the history of the individual draft versions. 12. References 12.1. Normative References [RFC4395] Hansen, T., Hardie, T., and L. Masinter, "Guidelines and Registration Procedures for New URI Schemes", RFC 4395, February 2006. [draft-wilde-sms-uri-12] Wilde, E. and A. Vaha-Sipila, "URI Scheme for GSM Short Wilde Expires September 14, 2006 [Page 4] Internet-Draft SMS URI Scheme Mar 2006 Message Service", draft-wilde-sms-service-12 (work in progress), March 2006. 12.2. Non-Normative References [RFC2368] Hoffmann, P., Masinter, L., and J. Zawinski, "The mailto URL scheme", RFC 2368, June 1998. [RFC2629] Rose, M., "Writing I-Ds and RFCs using XML", RFC 2629, June 1999. Appendix A. Where to send Comments Please send all comments and questions concerning this document to Erik Wilde. Appendix B. Acknowledgements This document has been prepared using the IETF document DTD described in RFC 2629 [RFC2629]. Thanks to Bennett Marks for his help and comments. Wilde Expires September 14, 2006 [Page 5] Internet-Draft SMS URI Scheme Mar 2006 Author's Address Erik Wilde Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH-Zentrum 8092 Zurich Switzerland Phone: +41-44-6325132 Email: erik.wilde@dret.net URI: http://dret.net/netdret/ Wilde Expires September 14, 2006 [Page 6] Internet-Draft SMS URI Scheme Mar 2006 Intellectual Property Statement The IETF takes no position regarding the validity or scope of any Intellectual Property Rights or other rights that might be claimed to pertain to the implementation or use of the technology described in this document or the extent to which any license under such rights might or might not be available; nor does it represent that it has made any independent effort to identify any such rights. Information on the procedures with respect to rights in RFC documents can be found in BCP 78 and BCP 79. 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