Re: Best practices using URIs

On 13 Nov 2003, at 17:23, Hammond, Tony (ELSLON) wrote:

>> With an HTTP URI, you will be able to dereference right away, would 
>> the
>> need or uses emerge, with no need for another lookup and discovery
>> architecture.
>
> and BIND?

"right away" in the sense that "with no different infrastructure rather 
than what you already have working in your office and everywhere else 
right now"

DNS and HTTP servers are there today and have gone thru tens of 
thousands of men-months worth of implementation effort, maintenance, 
security checking, performance tuning and usability optimization. We 
are talking about several tens of millions of dollars worth of software 
development.

I would personally think twice before reimplementing something that 
works and scales so well, and this would be my advice for URI practices 
in general.

--
Stefano.