- From: Michael Mealling <michael@bailey.dscga.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 00:00:17 -0400
- To: Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>
- Cc: uri@w3.org
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 10:26:49PM -0500, Aaron Swartz wrote: > Michael Mealling <michael@bailey.dscga.com> wrote: > > I would be very hesitant to use > > it to identify physical objects but would use something like a URN or > > a new URI scheme to do so > > Do you think this would be a worthwhile scheme to specify/propose? Something > like <object:http://apple.com/ibook/> meaning iBook or > <object:http://swartzfam.com/aaron/> meaning me. > > As opposed to <data:http://apple.com/ibook/> meaning the actual URL > "http://apple.com/ibook/". I wouldn't go about doing it that way. URIs identify, its best to use them just for that. What you're doing here is coming up with a standard identifier relationship grammar which is something that a few of us have talked about before. See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/uri/2000Sep/0020.html for some rather lucid ideas from Dan LaLiberte on the subject. > How does one go about proposing such URI schemes? I don't seem to see > anything about it in RFC 2396. RFC 2717 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2717.txt) -MM -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Mealling | Vote Libertarian! | www.rwhois.net/michael Sr. Research Engineer | www.ga.lp.org/gwinnett | ICQ#: 14198821 Network Solutions | www.lp.org | michaelm@netsol.com
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