- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 13:07:45 -0500
- To: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@microsoft.com>
- Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 09:35:35AM -0800, Joshua Allen wrote:
> Furthermore, the DNS portion of the URI is as much about
> delineating naming authority as it is about locating a port for GET
> operations.
Yup. IMO, the confusion stems primarily (solely?) from the fact that
the same string is used for both purposes. But that's not a
requirement of the architecture, it's just a bit easier to manage. It
doesn't mean that we couldn't have defined the http URI scheme like
so;
http://ExampleCo/foo/bar
and in the definition of the scheme, define a transform that takes
that string and converts it to a hostname ("www.example.com") when
dereferencing the URI.
Mark.
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