- From: Michael Mealling <michael@neonym.net>
- Date: 06 Nov 2003 12:01:02 -0500
- To: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Cc: "Ian B. Jacobs" <ij@w3.org>, www-tag@w3.org
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 10:11, Mark Baker wrote: > Hey, > > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:00:52AM -0500, Ian B. Jacobs wrote: > > > ====== 2.3 URI Schemes ============== > > > > > > 1st para last sentence s/specifies/may specify/ (some are deliberately > > > silent) > > > > > > "Deployed software is more likely to handle the introduction of a new > > > media type than the introduction of a new URI scheme" I used to think > > > so, but this is actually true? > > > > We have been wrestling with this statement for a while. I believe > > DanC is not satisfied with the rationale in this section. I also believe > > Roy is not convinced that it's true. > > What about this as a replacement? > > "If an agent encounters an unknown URI scheme, it is unable to > dereference the URI to retrieve a representation. Actually, if you were to use the URI Resolution DDDS method you have a way of dereferencing an unknown URI scheme by discovering the syntactic structure within the unknown scheme and using that to discover a gateway service for that resource via a protocol you know how to support.... -MM
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