Re: Proposal for an "address:" URI Scheme

[Reinier Post]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 07:34:02PM -0600, Aaron Swartz wrote:
 
> An even more abbreviated from (since zip codes are unambiguous within the
> US) would be:

[...]

This is a great idea!

Many countries have ZIP codes.  On international mail you're supposed
to prefix the ZIP code with the ISO country code and a hyphen.  The
international Postal Union regulates these things.  See e.g.

  http://www.galaxy.com/galaxy/Reference/Postal-and-Zip-Codes.html

So zip:// is much easier to standardize and use than address://.
And it might actually work!  Web-based postal delivery services
will only be happy to see ZIP code support built into web software.

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Reinier