URI Address Schemes

URI addresses contain a scheme and a scheme-dependent address.

{scheme-name} ":" {scheme-dependent-address}

The scheme implies the syntax and semantics of the address portion of an address and, in general use, the scheme is also associated with a particular protocol. For example http: implies the HTTP protocol and ftp: implies the FTP protocol.

NetKernel brings URI addressing inside of software systems and allows a developer to define new schemes, such as transient:. Two important schemes used widely within NetKernel are ffcpl: and active: