On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 07:20:49AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote: > > At the very least, I think if we plan to reference without an http URL > > that we would use something like URI-ish, like <mid:ABC@XYZ>. That gives > > tools a better chance to say "OK, I know how to find message-ids" > > (though I still think that it's much less helpful out of the box > > compared to an http URL). > > That would be awesome if somelike like <mid:ABC@XYZ> could be a > standard and adopted (likewise with <git:$object_id>). > > I haven't checked, but are there existing/similar RFCs? > Surely somebody has tried to get <git:$object_id> > adopted by now, right? There's https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2392. They even call it "mid:". :) I don't know of any git URI scheme, though it's similar in spirit to magnet: links. Those are a bit verbose, though, because they're really a meta-format for a bunch of different content-addressable schemes. -Peff
