Re: URI-protocol mapping (was Re: How to add new "protocols" ?)
Ron Daniel Jr. (rdaniel@acl.lanl.gov)
Thu, 20 Feb 1997 16:51:28 -0700
Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970220164958.0097c100@acl.lanl.gov>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 16:51:28 -0700
To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, Daniel LaLiberte <liberte@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
From: "Ron Daniel Jr." <rdaniel@acl.lanl.gov>
Subject: Re: URI-protocol mapping (was Re: How to add new "protocols" ?)
Cc: touch@isi.edu, uri@bunyip.com
At 04:31 PM 2/20/97 -0600, Dan Connolly wrote:
>For example, I notice that Ron Daniel's proposes[1] some mechanisms
>for URN resolution. Funny enough: they work just fine on
>strings like:
>
> http://www.foo.com/software/latest-beta.exe
That's why the title of the draft talks about resolving URIs, not URNs. :-)
>Personally, I caved in a while ago: the community refers
>to these things as URLs (as in "hurl me an url, dude!"),
>so I call them URLs almost all
>the time. I don't feel that having two or three terms
>(URI, URN) which differ only in their connotations, rather
>than in the technical mechanisms and uses, is useful at all.
Well, there is at least one place where I think a useful technical
distinction can be made. URNs are to be location-independent. Not
only is the notion of a "location-independent locator" a bit
tortured, I would have a hard time calling
http://www.foo.com/whatever
a URN since it clearly has a preferred location for resolution.
Regards,
Ron Daniel Jr. voice:+1 505 665 0597
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