- From: Kevin Smathers <kevin.smathers@hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:50:01 -0800
- To: Nick Matsakis <matsakis@MIT.EDU>
- Cc: "Hammond, Tony (ELSLON)" <T.Hammond@elsevier.com>, "'karger@theory.lcs.mit.edu'" <karger@theory.lcs.mit.edu>, www-rdf-dspace@w3.org
FQDN is just a short form for 'fully qualified domain name'. In other
words a hostname that is rooted in the root name servers.
Nick Matsakis wrote:
>On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Hammond, Tony (ELSLON) wrote:
>
>
>
>>One of the prime qualities of 'urn' URIs are that they are
>>location-independent, i.e. no authority component.
>> urn://www.mit.edu/simile....
>>
>>That doesn't work. URNs and FQDNs don't mix.
>>
>>
>
>What is an FQDN? It seems to me that there should be something like
>urn:dns:mit.edu/simile/... which says basically, this isn't resolvable,
>but the namespace is managed by the same people who manage the DNS
>namespace.
>
>The following is quite pedantic, but www.mit.edu/simile is not owned by
>the simile group. www.mit.edu is owned by an MIT student group (SIPB)
>that was doing web stuff before it was hot. Eventually, MIT wrested away
>www.mit.edu to point to web.mit.edu but everything _under_ www.mit.edu is
>still owned by SIPB. web.mit.edu/simile does belong to the simile group.
>However, web and www are both passe, and you can save yourself three
>characters by just going with http://mit.edu/simile/... which is also
>owned by the group.
>
>Nick
>
>
>
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