- From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 10:42:45 -0700
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- CC: Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org>, "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@apache.org>, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, uri@w3.org
Mark Nottingham wrote: > >... > > A reasonable interpretation may be that mailto's dereference function is > the composition of a message; Well I guess that's the heart of the debate. I don't think that URIs define their "dereference function" any more than street addresses or GPS locations do. They are inert. The context (XSLT, XSchema, PDF, HTML, ...) defines what to do with them. I would say that at best a URI scheme can define a set of methods available to the application. I think that wherever possible this set should include "GET" so that the resources addressed by the scheme can support introspection. Paul Prescod
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