Re: Are cool URIs for life?

+1

The namespaces for our vocabularies, for example, are all http - but the 
transport mechanism may be https (and w3.org will upgrade requests to 
http for clients that support it).

Phil


On 27/04/2017 15:57, Stephane Fellah wrote:
> Please keep in mind that in the context of Linked Data, the use of HTTP
> scheme in URI is just fine and actually recommended, as URI should be
> considered only as globally unique names identifying a concept. Naming and
> addressing are two different things. Here the excellent blog for Norman
> Walsh that explains the difference.
> https://norman.walsh.name/2006/07/25/namesAndAddresses.
>
> Regards
> Stephane Fellah
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 10:35 AM, Marcel Fröhlich <marcel.frohlich@gmail.com
>> wrote:
>
>> Instead of policing a refined design could help (for use cases that are
>> worth the additional effort)
>>
>> - As unique identifiers URNs may be cooler than URIs because they don't
>> mix up naming and access protocol.
>>   Expect more protocol changes/variety to come than just a switch from
>> HTTP to HTTPS, even if it takes some time.
>>
>> - Vanilla DNS is a mediocre base for URI namespaces, because DNS
>> governance allows re-assignment of domains.
>>   We need top-level domains that assign domain names only once.
>>
>> Marcel
>>
>> 2017-04-27 15:43 GMT+02:00 Keith Alexander <keithalexander@
>> keithalexander.co.uk>:
>>
>>> When a naming system requires names to be maintained by an owner at cost
>>> (domain renewals, server provision, etc), it's very likely that names are
>>> going to change and fall out of use a lot...
>>>
>>> "Policing" (via pedantic-web or otherwise) may be useful for accidental
>>> name changes, but otherwise hints at a conflict of interests between
>>> publisher and consumer (ie, the consumer wants the old name, the publisher
>>> wants the new one or wants to stop supporting the name altogether).
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 1:24 PM, Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Are "cool URIs don't change" for life?
>>>>
>>>> Would the policing of this fall under the jurisdiction of pedantic-web?
>>>>
>>>> Discuss.
>>>>
>>>> Aside: Please help me decide on this burning issue that I've been
>>>> putting off: https://twitter.com/csarven/status/857569335908454401
>>>>
>>>> -Sarven
>>>> http://csarven.ca/#i
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>

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