definitions for operations on URIs from Larry Masinter on 2002-07-13 (uri@w3.org from July 2002)

From: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 09:53:11 -0700
To: <uri@w3.org>
Message-ID: <000001c22a8d$c9135d40$6ace8642@masinter>

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2002Jul/0169.html

These look like interesting possible additions to the URI specification.

URI Resolution: 
  The process of determining the access mechanism and 
  appropriate parameters necessary to dereference a 
  URI. e.g. in the case of an HTTP URI, this process 
  resolves the URI into an IP address, a port number, 
  a host name (possibly optional) and a request URI.

  Resolution may require several iterations.

URI Dereference: 
  The process of using the access mechanism and 
  parameters generated by URI resolution to create, 
  inspect or modify resource state.

URI Retrieval: 
  The use of URI dereference to retrieve 
  representations of resource state.

Received on Saturday, 13 July 2002 12:52:34 UTC