- From: Hammond, Tony (ELSLON) <T.Hammond@elsevier.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 20:29:51 -0000
- To: "'karger@theory.lcs.mit.edu'" <karger@theory.lcs.mit.edu>, www-rdf-dspace@w3.org
?! One of the prime qualities of 'urn' URIs are that they are location-independent, i.e. no authority component. urn://www.mit.edu/simile.... That doesn't work. URNs and FQDNs don't mix. Tony -----Original Message----- From: David R. Karger [mailto:karger@theory.lcs.mit.edu] Sent: 18 November 2003 20:20 To: www-rdf-dspace@w3.org Subject: ungetable http URIs We were playing with some simile data in haystack today and discussed briefly the fact that simile is defining URIs in namespace http://www.mit.edu/simile/ that are not http-GETtable---ie, they return 404 not founds. Apparently there has been some discussion of this approach but I don't think I've weighed in. If we don't ever plan for the URIs to be http-GETtable, there's no reason for us to use http URIs: we could do urn://www.mit.edu/simile.... This would avoid browsers getting confused. Alternatively (and this is the approach I'd like to see) it would be nice if we had a web server that returned some useful RDF when we tried to resolve such URIs---just in case the requestor was able to cope with that (as haystack can) -David
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