Re: Dereferencing HTTP URIs (redux?)

Booth, David (HP Software - Boston) scripsit:

> A 303-redirect service such as http://thing-described-by.org makes it
> very easy -- no server configuration at all.  For any absolute http URI
> u, http://thing-described-by.org?u 303-redirects to u.

Thanks for the heads-up.  It doesn't quite do everything that's needed,
though.  The trouble with t-d-b names is that you can't use them to
talk about things that you yourself did not describe.  For example,
http://t-d-b.org?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington is an
illegitimate URI for the resource usually named "George Washington",
because Wikimedia did not authorize it.

I'd like to see something like
"http://t-d-b.org?by=mailto:cowan@ccil.org&using=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington"
allowed; that would be an URL minted by the owner of
"mailto:cowan@ccil.org" (viz. me) to refer to the resource described
(in my opinion) by "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington",
viz. George Washington.  The redirection should be just as simple
to arrange.

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