Re: File API commens

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:53:32 +0200, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
> wrote:
>>
>> Jonas Sicking wrote:
>>>
>>> ...
>>> I think we'd really like to avoid creating a new scheme if we could
>>> reuse an existing one. I know Arun was looking for an existing scheme,
>>> but not sure if he looked at the 'urn' scheme.
>>>  Would it need to be urn:somename:uuid though? like urn:fileid:uuid?
>>> ...
>>
>> What's wrong with urn:uuid, which is defined in RFC 4122 and already
>> cited?
>
> You need to know what the URL is for in other contexts. It seems nicer if
> that is explicit from the scheme rather than some additional bit of data
> that is attached to the uuid.

You mean that this would be tricky implementation-wise? Since you need
to know that a specific uuid references a File rather than something
else?

/ Jonas

Received on Thursday, 8 October 2009 18:11:09 UTC