Request: Add ".me" to Eddystone-URL Table about eddystone HOT 6 CLOSED

@scottjenson.

Interesting suggestion, but I'm not sure how to best roll out changes to these values. As soon as you start advertising URLs with this change you isolate all clients which are not up to date with the latest spec.

I wonder if we should send the raw bytes of the advertisement packet to the PWS, which can update more easily to support new values?

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Interesting thought. The whole intention was to roll out new compression codes, so I'd hate to say we're done forever. The longer we wait, the harder it will get. Fortunately, old beacons will work with new clients. But as you point out, the opposite isn't the case.

One possibility is that clients expand the opcodes they are able to and then allow the PWS to extend any codes that are left over. This allows much of the decoding to still be in the client but the PWS is there to clean up any older clients. This allows both approaches (client vs PWS) so we can allow both approaches.

It's been a back burner issue to revisit the code expansion but it's likely going to be tricky as we can't, for example do every country code. We could add intermediate codes like ".co" and ".gov" as they are used in most country expansions (e.g. bbc.co.uk)

If we can find a way forward with the client/PWS approach, I'd like to focus more on TLDs such as .info, .io, .cc and other popular ones we missed in our first pass.

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Are these TLDs included: .xyz, .guide, .biz, .tours
I need alternatives to .com, all the names I want to use are taken.

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You are free to use those URLs, they simply will not be "compressed" down
to a single byte.

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 2:50 PM jerryhimmersion [email protected]
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Are these TLDs included: .xyz, .guide, .biz, .tours
I need alternatives to .com, all the names I want to use are taken.

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Is there a link to the current list of acceptable TDLs

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I believe you can find it here https://github.com/google/eddystone/blob/de5ff70112e73616ab63de3e91a038c70cf9f5bf/eddystone-url/README.md

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