The 'leaptofrogans' URI Scheme
draft-op3ft-leaptofrogans-uri-scheme-03

Internet Engineering Task Force                                 A. Tamas
Internet-Draft                                           B. Phister, Ed.
Intended status: Informational                            J-E. Rodriguez
Expires: April 6, 2019                                             OP3FT
                                                         October 3, 2018

                     The 'leaptofrogans' URI Scheme
                draft-op3ft-leaptofrogans-uri-scheme-03

Abstract

   This document describes the 'leaptofrogans' Uniform Resource
   Identifier (URI) scheme, which enables applications to launch Frogans
   Player on a given Frogans site.  Frogans is a medium for publishing
   content and services on the Internet, defined as a generic software
   layer on the Internet.  Frogans Player is software enabling end users
   to browse Frogans sites.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Background Information  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
     1.1.  About Frogans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
     1.2.  About the OP3FT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
   2.  The Need for a New URI Scheme and its Purpose . . . . . . . . . 4
   3.  The Choice of the Scheme Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
   4.  Scheme Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
     4.1.  URI Scheme  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
     4.2.  IRI Usage and Encoding  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
   5.  Rights to Use the Trademark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
   6.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
   7.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
   8.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
     8.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
     8.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

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1.  Background Information

1.1.  About Frogans

   Frogans is a medium for publishing content and services on the
   Internet.  From its inception in 1999, the medium was designed as a
   generic software layer running on top of the original Internet
   infrastructure, i.e. the TCP and IP protocols and the Domain Name
   System (DNS), alongside other existing layers such as E-mail or the
   World Wide Web.

   As a medium, Frogans is not meant for publishing Web sites, but
   Frogans sites, a kind of site founded upon a different format,
   enabling a different kind of communication between end users and
   publishers of content and services.

   Frogans is intended to be complementary to the World Wide Web, and
   not to replace it.  This is just like instant messaging, which was
   not intended to and did not replace E-mail.

   Compared to the World Wide Web, Frogans suggests visual rather than
   text-based communication, focused content rather than long pages, and
   natural interaction rather than complex user interfaces (see [FSDL]
   Section 1.4 "Frogans sites and Web sites").

   The technology making up the medium, i.e. the Frogans technology,
   includes multiple components such as:

   o  An XML-based language, called Frogans Slide Description Language
      [FSDL], used to develop Frogans sites.

   o  International identifiers, called Frogans addresses [IFAP], used
      to access Frogans sites.  Each Frogans site has its own Frogans
      address.

   o  Browsing software, called Frogans Player, enabling end users to
      browse Frogans sites.  An end user opens a Frogans site by
      entering its Frogans address in Frogans Player.

   o  A registry, called the Frogans Core Registry (FCR), that contains
      all Frogans addresses registered by Frogans site publishers.  The
      registry operator, called the FCR Operator, ensures the resolution
      of Frogans addresses when end users enter them in Frogans Player.

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1.2.  About the OP3FT

   Created in 2012, the OP3FT [OP3FT] is a dedicated, non-profit
   organization whose purpose is to hold, promote, protect and ensure
   the progress of the Frogans technology, in the form of an open
   standard, available to all, free of charge.

   As part of its mission, the OP3FT develops and releases technical
   specifications, reference implementations (including Frogans Player),
   and various policies which define the rights and responsibilities of
   all stakeholders involved in the technology worldwide.

2.  The Need for a New URI Scheme and its Purpose

   Generic software layers running on top of the Internet offer
   mechanisms enabling end users to easily go from one layer to another,
   in both directions.  This is commonly achieved using URIs [RFC3986].

   As regards the Frogans layer, in the outgoing direction, FSDL enables
   Frogans site publishers to include in their Frogans sites way-out
   buttons enabling end users to launch their usual Web browser on a
   given Web page, or to launch their usual E-mail client with a given
   E-mail address.  This is achieved by associating a URI with each of
   those way-out buttons (the scheme of the URI can be either 'http',
   'https', or 'mailto').

   Conversely, in the incoming direction, Web site publishers should
   have a means to include in their Web pages links enabling end users
   to launch Frogans Player on a given Frogans site.  Likewise, people
   writing E-mail messages should have a means to include in their
   messages links enabling recipients to launch Frogans Player on a
   given Frogans site.  More generally, any end-user application should
   be able to launch Frogans Player on a given Frogans site.

   In order to achieve this, a new URI scheme, containing a Frogans
   address, is needed.

   Given that Frogans as a medium does not enable deep linking for
   Frogans sites, there is no need for additional information in the new
   URI scheme other than the Frogans address.

3.  The Choice of the Scheme Name

   [RFC Editor: Please delete this section before publication]

   The name chosen for the new URI scheme is 'leaptofrogans'.

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   This scheme name was chosen in compliance with [RFC7595] Section 3.8
   "Scheme Name Considerations".

   As regards the length of the scheme name, shorter names were
   discussed but were not chosen:

   o  'ltf': this name, an acronym for "leap to Frogans", was considered
      insufficiently descriptive, especially for typical end users who
      have little technical knowledge.

   o  'leapto': this name was considered overly general, and is not
      specifically associated with Frogans.

   o  'frogans': this name was rejected because it could create
      confusion between URIs based on this scheme and those Frogans
      addresses that start with "frogans".

4.  Scheme Syntax

   Frogans addresses [IFAP] are international identifiers made up of
   Unicode characters.  Thus a method for encoding non US-ASCII
   characters is necessary when the new scheme is used as a URI.  The
   new scheme can also be useful as an IRI [RFC3987] in contexts where
   IRIs are allowed.

4.1.  URI Scheme

   The syntax for the 'leaptofrogans' URI scheme is:

      leaptofrogans-uri = "leaptofrogans:" pct-encoded-frogans-address

   where pct-encoded-frogans-address is a Frogans address compliant with
   [IFAP] whose Unicode characters are each encoded as follows:

   o  If the character is a US-ASCII character, do not replace it and
      skip to the next character.  Note that according to [IFAP], this
      character cannot be the U+0025 PERCENT SIGN character.

   o  Otherwise, apply steps 1 through 3 below:

      1.  Convert the character to a sequence of one or more octets
          using UTF-8 [UTF-8]

      2.  Convert each octet to %HH, where HH is the hexadecimal
          notation of the octet value.  Note that this is identical to
          the percent-encoding mechanism in section 2.1 of [RFC3986].

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      3.  Replace the original character with the resulting character
          sequence (i.e., a sequence of %HH triplets).

4.2.  IRI Usage and Encoding

   The syntax for IRIs corresponding to the 'leaptofrogans' URI scheme
   is:

      leaptofrogans-iri = "leaptofrogans:" frogans-address

   where frogans-address is a Frogans address compliant with [IFAP] and
   encoded in UTF-8 [UTF-8].

   In contexts where both URIs and IRIs are allowed, end-user
   applications can use either a URI or an IRI based on the
   'leaptofrogans' URI scheme when launching Frogans Player on a given
   Frogans site.  This is because Frogans Player must interpret both
   URIs and IRIs based on the 'leaptofrogans' URI scheme.  If the U+0025
   PERCENT SIGN character is found in the string, then the string will
   be interpreted by Frogans Player as a URI, otherwise it will be
   interpreted as an IRI.

5.  Rights to Use the Trademark

   In order to enable all users worldwide to use the Frogans technology
   in a clearly defined, secure and perpetual environment, the OP3FT
   Bylaws [BYLAWS] provide for the implementation of an intellectual
   property policy.

   In this context, the OP3FT is the holder of the "Frogans" trademark
   which is registered in France, the United States, and other countries
   around the world.

   However, this does not cause any problems with rights to use the
   scheme name in IETF specifications and Internet protocols because, in
   compliance with [RFC5378] Section 3.4.  "Rights to Use Trademarks",
   the OP3FT hereby grants to the IETF Trust a perpetual license to use
   the "Frogans" trademark as part of the scheme name.

6.  IANA Considerations

   [RFC Editor: Please replace 'xxxx' with assigned RFC number before
   publication]

   In accordance with the guidelines and registration procedures for new
   URI schemes [RFC7595], this section provides the information needed

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   to register the 'leaptofrogans' URI scheme.

   Scheme name: 'leaptofrogans'

   Status: permanent

   URI Scheme Syntax: See Section 4 of RFC xxxx.

   URI Scheme semantics: See Section 2 of RFC xxxx.

   Encoding Considerations: See Section 4 of RFC xxxx.

   Applications/protocols that use this scheme name: Frogans Player as
   well as any end-user application (such as a Web browser or an E-mail
   client) wishing to launch Frogans Player on a given Frogans site.

   Interoperability Considerations: There are no known interoperability
   concerns related to use of the 'leaptofrogans' URI scheme.

   Security Considerations: See Section 7 of RFC xxxx.

   Contact: Alexis Tamas mailto:alexis.tamas@op3ft.org

   Change controller: OP3FT mailto:contact-standards@op3ft.org

   References: RFC xxxx.

7.  Security Considerations

   The author of a Web page can create a link where the true nature of
   the URI is hidden in the link text which is visible to end users.
   The same applies for an E-mail message as well as for other end-user
   applications.

   As concerns URIs based on the 'leaptofrogans' URI scheme, this risk
   of confusion is mitigated because Frogans Player must always display
   the real Frogans address contained in the URI, and require
   confirmation by the end user before opening the corresponding Frogans
   site.

   Also, an end-user application may provide a URI containing a Frogans
   address that is not valid.  This does not represent a risk because,
   before asking for confirmation by the end user, Frogans Player must
   always verify that the Frogans address contained in the URI is
   compliant with [IFAP], and raise an error if the Frogans address is
   not compliant.

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8.  References

8.1.  Normative References

   [IFAP]     OP3FT, "International Frogans Address Pattern",
              Version 1.1, ISBN 978-2-37313-000-3, November 2014,
              <https://www.frogans.org/en/resources/ifap/access.html>.

   [RFC3986]  Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and L. Masinter, "Uniform
              Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax", STD 66,
              RFC 3986, DOI 10.17487/RFC3986, January 2005,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3986>.

   [RFC3987]  Duerst, M. and M. Suignard, "Internationalized Resource
              Identifiers (IRIs)", RFC 3987, DOI 10.17487/RFC3987,
              January 2005, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3987>.

   [RFC5378]  Bradner, S., Ed. and J. Contreras, Ed., "Rights
              Contributors Provide to the IETF Trust", BCP 78, RFC 5378,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC5378, November 2008,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5378>.

   [RFC7595]  Thaler, D., Ed., Hansen, T., and T. Hardie, "Guidelines
              and Registration Procedures for URI Schemes", BCP 35,
              RFC 7595, DOI 10.17487/RFC7595, June 2015,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7595>.

   [UTF-8]    Yergeau, F., "UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO
              10646", STD 63, RFC 3629, DOI 10.17487/RFC3629,
              November 2003, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3629>.

8.2.  Informative References

   [BYLAWS]   OP3FT, "Bylaws of the French Fonds de Dotation OP3FT,
              Organization for the Promotion, Protection and Progress of
              Frogans Technology", March 2012,
              <https://www.op3ft.org/en/resources/bylaws/access.html>.

   [FSDL]     OP3FT, "Frogans Slide Description Language - 3.0",
              Preliminary Draft 7, September 2018,
              <https://www.frogans.org/en/resources/fsdl/access.html>.

   [OP3FT]    OP3FT, "Organization for the Promotion, Protection and
              Progress of Frogans Technology", <https://www.op3ft.org/>.

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Authors' Addresses

   Alexis Tamas
   OP3FT
   6, Square Mozart
   75016 Paris,
   France

   Phone: +33 1 53 92 00 40
   Email: alexis.tamas@op3ft.org

   Benjamin Phister (editor)
   OP3FT
   6, Square Mozart
   75016 Paris,
   France

   Phone: +33 1 53 92 00 40
   Email: benjamin.phister@op3ft.org

   Jean-Emmanuel Rodriguez
   OP3FT
   6, Square Mozart
   75016 Paris,
   France

   Phone: +33 1 53 92 00 40
   Email: jean-emmanuel.rodriguez@op3ft.org

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