Re: tag URIs (was Re: New Intro to RDF)

Danny Ayers wrote:

  This reminds me, perhaps you can save me trawling the docs. The URI
> for every property I've ever seen uses the http: scheme. But is the
> http: scheme actually mandated anywhere in the specs?
> 
> It does make sense to use http: URIs, it's useful to have something
> available on the Web for those URIs. (It looks like a RDDL doc at the
> ns URI might be the something favoured by the TAG:
> http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/issues.html#namespaceDocument-8 )
> 
> But is it The Law?

My understanding was that :

"[A] URL is a type of URI that identifies a resource via a 
representation of its primary access mechanism (e.g., its network 
"location") rather than by some other attributes it may have. Thus as we 
noted, "http:" is a URI scheme. An http URI is a URL."

The source of which was the "URI Planning Interest Group, W3C/IETF" and 
the link to which I've since lost. Perhaps this has been superseded by 
another spec. (I hope not because the above is pretty straightforward to 
my eyes.)

Received on Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:48:43 UTC