- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 14:34:32 -0700
- To: Henrik Nordström <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>
- Cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On May 14, 2010, at 1:09 PM, Henrik Nordström wrote: > fre 2010-05-14 klockan 12:36 -0700 skrev Roy T. Fielding: > >> All schemes are dereferenceable, including urn, info, and tag. > > Are they? Yes. Any scheme can be proxied through HTTP, even when it might be unwise to do so. > Quote from the tag scheme specification RFC4151: > > There is no authoritative resolution mechanism for tags. Unlike > most other URIs, tags can only be used as identifiers, and are > not designed to support resolution. If authoritative resolution > is a desired feature, a different URI scheme should be used. > > Some of the URN name spaces have similar issues. That doesn't prevent anyone from introducing a resolution, deploying it, and then configuring their web tools to dereference it. There is a long history of URN-like specifications living in some fantasy land that has no correspondence with Web technology. ....Roy
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