I-D Action: draft-morrison-alter-uri-scheme-02.txt

Internet-Draft draft-morrison-alter-uri-scheme-02.txt is now available.

   Title:   The 'alter' URI Scheme for Dispatchable ~handle References
   Author:  Blake Morrison
   Name:    draft-morrison-alter-uri-scheme-02.txt
   Pages:   15
   Dates:   2026-08-11

Abstract:

   This document defines the alter URI scheme as a dispatchable
   reference syntax for ~handle identity references published under the
   DNS substrate defined in [MCPDNS].  An alter: URI binds a textual
   ~handle reference to a resolution and verification procedure that
   retrieves the handle's envelope from the publishing zone, validates
   the envelope's signature chain, and dispatches the result to an
   operating-system URI handler.  The reference may be scoped to an
   organisation, narrowed to a named facet of the identity, and
   addressed to a typed action surface.  The scheme is the addressing
   form of the ~handle@org:facet/action reference; its resolution
   semantics are those of [MCPDNS], reused without modification.

   The scheme is provider-neutral, introduces no new cryptographic
   primitive, and reuses the resolution and verification procedures of
   [MCPDNS] without modification.  The principal contribution is a
   single, self-verifying dispatch surface for handle-typed references:
   clicking, typing, or scanning an alter: URI yields a verified handle
   resolution rather than a free-text string or an unauthenticated
   fetch, and where an action is addressed it yields a verify-before-
   side-effect dispatch.  This document requests provisional
   registration of the alter scheme with IANA per [RFC7595] Section 3.

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