<snip> However, the key point is that it is *layered* on the good old http scheme. Thus, if you click on this URI:

http://t-d-b.org/?http://dbooth.org/2005/dbooth/

it works, with no changes needed to your browser </snip> So the thinking here is to use the "concept" of a scheme without actually minting one because the most common client today would throw an error if an actual scheme was used, right?