Feedback on draft-gregorio-uritemplate-00

Joe,

Although the design considerations were somewhat different, there is 
enough overlap that you'll find it useful to take a look at our 
S-Link-S specification.: http://www.openly.com/slinks/SLinkS.html

We currently maintain a library of about 2000 of these, for use in 
bibliographic linking to electronic resources.

Originally our motivation was similar to yours- that information 
providers would want to publish information about how to liink to the 
web sites. That never happened. Instead, we had to go out and 
characterize thousands of sites. I would estimate that the subset of 
these that could be fully handled with the amount of expressiveness 
available in the current version of URI-Templates is between 5 and 
10% of the total.

Eric

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