RE: Semantic Web Hackings

At 06:20 PM 12/31/00 -0800, Jason Diamond wrote:
>I'm a programmer. I don't care about the meaning of mozzarella or even how
>fast Len gets his pizza delivered. If I'm going to implement something, it
>has to be implementable. In this case, all I need is a function that takes
>in a mailto URI and gives me back an http URI so that I can execute this
>magic query you keep talking about.

Actually there's some interesting stuff happening in the IETF that might 
help here, under the auspices of the URN working group:  look for DDDS stuff.

   http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/urn-charter.html

One proposed DDDS mechanism uses DNS NAPTR records to map an input string 
to an arbitrary URI.

This is currently being used for telephone number mapping 
(http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/enum-charter.html) but is applicable to 
other kinds of URL discovery.

#g

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Graham Klyne
(GK@ACM.ORG)

Received on Monday, 1 January 2001 14:11:42 UTC