The 'leaptofrogans' URI scheme is a mechanism enabling end-user applications, such as Web browsers or E-mail clients, to launch Frogans Player on a given Frogans site.

Technical specifications


RFC 8959 - The 'leaptofrogans' URI scheme - Released online on May 22, 2019 - Status: In force

The 'leaptofrogans' Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme contains a Frogans address. This URI scheme is described in a Request for Comments (RFC) which has been reviewed, approved, and published as RFC 8589 by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). This URI scheme has also been registered by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) with the Permanent status.

Acknowledgments: The OP3FT would like to thank the following people for their contributions to RFC 8589. First, thanks to Khaled Koubaa for initiating and driving the project. Thanks to Eric Burger for putting the OP3FT in contact with the right people at the IETF. Thanks to Alexey Melnikov, as the responsible Area Director, and to Peter Saint-André, as the Document Shepherd, for all their assistance and support in moving the draft through the IETF process. Thanks to Graham Klyne for his work and input as the IANA expert reviewer. Thanks to expert reviewers Ted Hardie and Dave Thaler for their key recommendations for improving the draft. Finally, thanks to Ben Campbell, IETF Chair Alissa Cooper, Erik Kline, Magnus Nystrom, Adam Roach, Dale R. Worley, and Qin Wu for their careful review.

Reference implementation

The reference implementation of the 'leaptofrogans' URI scheme is under development.

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