- From: David Powell <djpowell@djpowell.net>
- Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 22:48:33 +0100
- To: Joshua Tauberer <tauberer@for.net>
- CC: "Hammond, Tony" <T.Hammond@nature.com>, "'SWIG'" <semantic-web@w3.org>
Hello Joshua, Wednesday, October 5, 2005, 3:27:58 PM, tauberer@for.net wrote: > Hammond, Tony wrote: >> It's called 'info:' >> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-vandesompel-info-uri-04.txt > Ah, that's pretty good. My reservation is its own custom registration > process, in which everyone that wants to use info: would need to > register. With http: URIs, there really is no registration process > because it works off of the structure of authority in http: URLs (which > isn't just domain names, but the authority of subdirectories too). It > would be nice to have a URI scheme like info: but without the need for > another registration. So if you have the authority over http:X, you > have the authority over newscheme:X. One way to merge that with info > would be to say if you own a domain name, you're automatically > registered with that name in the info: registry. You could also consider tag: URIs http://www.taguri.org/07/draft-kindberg-tag-uri-07.html They do use the existing domain name registry as an authority. -- Dave
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