- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 16:01:52 -0400
- To: David Orchard <dorchard@bea.com>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 03:37:53PM -0700, David Orchard wrote: > Seems that it doesn't matter what the scheme is, beit "now" or "id" or > "foo", as long as there are no methods defined in the IANA registry. If > that's the approach you are suggesting. Dave, I don't know what you mean by "as long as there are no methods defined in the IANA registry". Could you elaborate, please? IMO, the URI scheme a resource identifier uses most definitely does matter, since it identifies the abstract space in which the resource is to be accessed. You wouldn't use a "stockquote" scheme to identify telephone numbers, because a set of operations suitable for accessing stock quotes won't likely be suitable for telephone numbers ... which is why the http space is so special, since its operations, and any extended ones, are defined to apply to all things (hence "uniform interface"). MB -- Mark Baker, CTO, Idokorro Mobile (formerly Planetfred) Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. distobj@acm.org http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.idokorro.com
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