Re: URI for abstract concepts (domain, host, origin, site, etc.)

Eran Hammer-Lahav scripsit:

> Not sure how this is going to help. You still end up with an HTTP URI
> with no clear semantic meaning other than an HTTP resource.

What do you mean by "end up with"?  A data URI is not an HTTP URI.
<http://www.ccil.org> refefers to the home page of ccil.org;
<data:application/uri,http://www.ccil.org> refers to the URI
<http://www.ccil.org>.  They are two different URIs with two different
referents.

-- 
John Cowan              http://www.ccil.org/~cowan      cowan@ccil.org
"After all, would you consider a man without honor wealthy, even if his
Dinar laid end to end would reach from here to the Temple of Toplat?"
"No, I wouldn't", the beggar replied.  "Why is that?" the Master asked.
"A Dinar doesn't go very far these days, Master.        --Kehlog Albran
Besides, the Temple of Toplat is across the street."      The Profit