now://example.org/car (was lack of consensus on httpRange-14)

From the TAG f2f minutes:

[ChrisL]
    now://example.org/car
    Where 'now' is defined to be a
    non-dereferencable protocol

Other than this short statement, I couldn't find any other references in the
minutes about this idea.

Graham Klyne separately suggested:

 http://id.ninebynine.org/people/gk/ to identify a person
and
 http://www.ninebynine.org/Ident/people/gk/ to identity a web page.

With a small twist, that could be:

 now://www.ninebynine.org/Ident/people/gk/ to identify a person
and
 http://www.ninebynine.org/Ident/people/gk/ to identify a web page


From the viewpoint of a web developer, it makes sense to differentiate
between network-accessible and non-network-accessible resources. A trivial
transform ('now:' -> 'http:') can provide additional details on the abstract
thing-that-means-whatever-the-DNS-owner-defines-it-to-be.

Thoughts from the TAG?

.micah