- From: Dick Hardt <dick@sxip.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:51:00 -0600
- To: uri@w3.org, Digital Identity Exchange <dix@ietf.org>
- Cc: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
On 20-Mar-06, at 9:42 AM, Tim Bray wrote: > >> Does this make sense? Do you have a suggestion for another >> approach that provides an escape mechanism and allows >> decentralized property /capability extension? > > In general, naming things with URIs is a good and Web-friendly > thing to do; as you point out, the use of the authority field > allows distributed authority over parts of the namespace. In > particular, HTTP URIs have a lot of advantages. Thanks everyone for the feedback on the URI scheme for DIX. A likely shift in the architecture removes the requirement for the URI scheme to double as an escape sequence, so we can use HTTP. A couple examples of what we are doing are: http://sxip.net/contact/internet/email http://sxip.net/media/image/32x32 > you can put something useful there that a human being can point > their browser at and learn something about what this string means. Tim: what would you suggest that we put at that URLs above? An HTML file that describes it for people? Perhaps some metadata that is machine readable for typing? Suggestions welcome! -- Dick
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