- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 11:18:16 -0600
- To: "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>
- CC: chad <yandros@mit.edu>, Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>, uri@w3.org, www-talk@w3.org
"Sean B. Palmer" wrote: > But "geo" is so closely related with very specialized place names... > This scheme needs to indicate that it is used merely as a URI form for > standard (whatever that means) postal addresses. Er... it took me about 10 seconds to find the relevant authority: http://www.google.com/search?q=international+postal -> Universal Postal Union http://www.upu.int/ About the UPU Postal services form part of the daily life of people all over the world. The Universal Postal Union (UPU), with headquarters in Berne, Switzerland, is the specialized institution of the United Nations that regulates this truly universal service. The postal services of its 189 member countries form the largest physical distribution network in the world. Some 6.2 million postal employees working in over 700,000 post offices all over the world handle an annual total of 430 billion letters, printed matter and parcels in the domestic service and almost 10 billion letters, printed matter and parcels in the international service. http://www.upu.int/upu/an/about.html (sigh... frames. I hope they learn about the Web Content Accessability Guidelines soon.) > As I've stated before > "postal address" neatly becomes either:- > > postal-address: > post: > or address: > > "postal-address:" is a bit long, "post:" is too verb-like, and > "address:" seems to fit the bill nicely. Could you give a reason why > you don't like "address:" for the scheme name? You say to > "*definately*" change it, but don't state why you don't like it :-) because connolly@w3.org is an address too; it's the address of my internet mailbox. They're called postal addresses. Postal addresses http://www.upu.int/ap/postcode.Choice?p_language=AN&p_language=AN So of the three above, I'd use postal-address: . But I recommend developing a model for describing them and then come back to identifiers. Anybody can do such a model, but standardization/deployment of a new URI scheme requires an international agreement, preferably one that the upu is party to. For example, make up an upu: schema so that the postal address for me at W3C/MIT is: [ upu:to "Dan Connolly"; usps:street1 "200 Tech Square"; usps:city "Cambridge"; usps:state "MA"; usps:zip "02139" ] where usps:state rdfs:subPropertyOf upu:administrativeSubDivision. usps:zip rdfs:domain usps:PostBox. usps:PostBox rdfs:subClassOf upu:PostBox; #or: upu:PostDrop? rdfs:subclassOf [ daml:onProperty upu:country; daml:toValue "United States of America" ]. then if you can find a combination of upu: fields that form a key (i.e. values for all those fields determine a unique postbox) then you can make a URI out of those values. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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