- From: chad <yandros@mit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 23:23:07 -0500
- To: "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>
- cc: "Aaron Swartz" <aswartz@swartzfam.com>, uri@w3.org, www-talk@w3.org
> Oh dear! Well, in that case it would probably be a good idea to make > the first "section" of the URI (the piece of data preceeding the first > occurance of a slash) the internationally recognized country code, > following ISO standard 639 [1] for standard two bit country codes. > However, in practise these are usually quite distinct from postal > addresses... i.e. country codes aren't meant to be all that readable > as they can only consist of two characters. Therefore, it might be > useful to have a human readable form after the country code itself:- > > address:ru/Russia/00000/xxx/us This problem is more general than simply country codes/names. Might I suggest something like: address:///ru:Russia/00000/xxx/us:USA ...where each section has both a `canonical' and a `presentation' form? You may wish to use something other than a colon, but I don't follow uri close enough anymore to know what else might be a good suggestion. Oh, and *definately* change the name of the scheme from `address'. Offhand, `geo' sounds reasonable.
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