- From: Joern Clausen <joern@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 17:21:03 +0200
- To: "Williams, Stuart" <skw@hp.com>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
Hi! On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 03:48:43PM +0100, Williams, Stuart wrote: [...] > However, at least the http: spec. in RFC2616 seems to appeal to the notion > of authority in RFC2396 - many of the other scheme specifications pre-date > RFC2396 and (understandably) make no mention of 'authority'. RFC2616 assumes that the URL is actually used to retrieve something, so the notion of a "naming authority" makes some sense. But nobody can stop me from issuing the URI http://www.w3.org/thispathwillneverexist as long as I never expect anyone to actually resolve it, e.g. as a namespace identifier. I think the term "naming authority" is misleading. "location authority" or "resolution authority" would, IMHO, make more sense. Joern -- Joern Clausen joern@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE Faculty of Technology http://www.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE/~joern/ University of Bielefeld, Germany +49 (0)521/106-2494
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