Re: [ga] ".tel" proposed gTLD, and the like

[Harald Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

At 23:06 04/11/2000 -0500, Sandy Harris wrote:
>In that context, phone:// is clearer than tel://
>This would, I think, require protocol changes. The browser would
>have to understand "phone:" (change to HTTP or HTML) and be able
>to look up a phone number for "ibm.com" (new type of DNS record?
>new convention for use of TXT records? a separate directory?).

The tel:, fax: and modem: URLs are standardized by the IETF in RFC 2806.

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