On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 07:29:30PM -0400,
 Miles Fidelman <[email protected]> wrote 
 a message of 53 lines which said:

> 1.  There are a LOT more registered URI schemes, and URN namespaces
> than anybody actually uses.

Correct.
 
> 2.  Most of the URI schemes that are actually used, tend to include
> a protocol.

Hard to say scientifically but probable.

> 3.  (I may be on shakier ground here) the few URN namespaces that
> I've seen that have any traction at all, seem to have a resolution
> protocol associated with them - and usually the resolution ends up
> being a plain old HTTP URL.

OK, but there is also the opposite: HTTP URIs which do not resolve
(very common in the XML world).

> What's the utility of a URI scheme for DHTs (either a general scheme
> or one specific to, say, gnunet or bittorrent), other than as,
> perhaps, a notational device, if it's not tied to an access and/or a
> resolution protocol that can be implemented in, say, a proxy of some
> sort?

A very good reading, if you want to follow this track, is:

http://norman.walsh.name/2006/07/25/namesAndAddresses
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