- From: Graham Klyne <GK-lists@ninebynine.org>
- Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 21:50:51 +0100
- To: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Cc: public-uri-cg@w3.org
At 13:03 07/04/2003 -0500, pat hayes wrote: >><aside> >>I think there has long been a tension that URIs serve (at least two) >>different masters: in the web architecture (wherein the concept >>originated), as a framework for universal identification, but within the >>IETF (who "own" the specification) I sense a broad view that URIs are >>some kind of glorified address. > >That sounds like a URL to me. BUt I agree, there seem to be divergent >ideas about what we are talking about, and different masters to serve. I think the terminology here (URI,URL) is itself indicative of the different masters. I may be on shaky ground here, but it seems to me that there is no fundamental difference between an identifier and an address in that: given enough infrastructure, any identifier can be used as an address, and any address can serve as an identifier (modulo scoping issues). So, in this respect, one might view URLs as URIs for which the corresponding locating infrastructure happens to exist. (BTW, I didn't mean "glorified address" to be dismissive, though it now reads that way to me. Rather, it was the idea that a URL can encompass the structure of any existing addressing scheme.) #g ------------------- Graham Klyne <GK@NineByNine.org> PGP: 0FAA 69FF C083 000B A2E9 A131 01B9 1C7A DBCA CB5E
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