- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:25:37 -0400
- To: "Stan James" <sjames@uni-osnabrueck.de>
- Cc: uri@w3.org
On 9/18/06, Stan James <sjames@uni-osnabrueck.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > My company (www.lijit.com) allows people to enter comments about URI's. > Till now we've only had commenting about URL's, but we have tools now > for handling comments on stock symbols, UPC/GTIN codes, and file hashes. > The question then is how to encode these in URI's. > > Others have suggested building off our company URL, eg: > http://www.lijit.com/stocks/nasdaq/GOOG > but this won't work because we want this to be an open standard that > other people can use without tying everything back to us. > > I'm thinking of something like: > > stocks > security://nasdaq/stock/GOOG What about; http://quotes.nasdaq.com/asp/SummaryQuote.asp?selected=GOOG&symbol=GOOG > > UPC/GTIN > gtin://97807868684494 It would be nice to have, e.g. http://gtin.info/numbers/97807868684494 > file hash: > hash://sha-1/2fd4e1c67a2d28fced849ee1bb76e7391b93eb12 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet:_URI_scheme It's not a registered scheme, but p2p software generally supports it. I'll see what I can do about getting it registered; this is the third time I've mentioned it in the past few weeks. Mark.
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