- From: Infinity Linden <infinity@lindenlab.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:08:49 -0400
- To: Lisa Dusseault <lisa.dusseault@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Daniel R. Tobias" <dan@tobias.name>, URI <uri@w3.org>, hybi@ietf.org, uri-review@ietf.org
hold on.. are we talking about using IPN ( http://www.ipnsig.org/ ) or replacing it? On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Lisa Dusseault <lisa.dusseault@gmail.com> wrote: > Didn't Vernor Vinge sketch something like this out as part of the > multi-solar-system-spanning network in the Zones of Thought Sci Fi > series? His future programmers needed mind-altering substances (well > beyond caffeine, of course) to change any small part of the system and > they still caused chaos with every change. > > Your addressing example provides additional concreteness and realism > to the scenario :) > > Lisa > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 6:01 AM, Daniel R. Tobias<dan@tobias.name> wrote: >> I wonder if the "HTTP Uber Alles" crowd, if they were active 20 years >> ago, would be insisting that everything, including that newfangled >> HTTP protocol, be expressed in the form of a Gopher address, or >> perhaps FTP or Telnet, or maybe an e-mail address with the standard, >> adopted by the owner of the address, that the subject line contain >> the actual protocol intended to be used? >> >> I also wonder if, should their side win all its battles, 1000 years >> from now all URIs in use will be at least 1000 characters long, of >> which at least 800 of these characters will be fossilized deadwood of >> obsolete protocols that are preserved as magic incantations to begin >> a URI. So they'll be something like: >> >> http://ipp.solarsystem.net/earth/galacticgateway.net/andromeda/tachyon >> .protocol.net/ ...[snip]... /actualsite.actualgalaxy/path-in-site >> >> where "ipp.solarsystem.net", under "http", is the magic indicator of >> the InterPlanetaryProtocol that became dominant in 2067, and was >> followed by the actual address being reached by that protocol, >> starting with its home planet, but then "galacticgateway.net" within >> "earth" became the magic string to indicate that you are actually >> using the InterGalacticProtocol which became dominant in 2152, and >> similarly the "tachyon.protocol.net" signifies the Tachyon Protocol >> that caught on around 2272. >> >> User agent identifiers for the browsers people use with their 31st >> century protocols are similarly long and convoluted, beginning with >> "Mozilla/5.0" and containing references to MSIE, Gecko, and various >> other browser names and codenames that were trendy at some point or >> other over the millennium. >> >> -- >> == Dan == >> Dan's Mail Format Site: http://mailformat.dan.info/ >> Dan's Web Tips: http://webtips.dan.info/ >> Dan's Domain Site: http://domains.dan.info/ >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > hybi mailing list > hybi@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/hybi >
Received on Tuesday, 15 September 2009 12:09:02 UTC