RE: Context Independent URI

Miles,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miles Sabin [mailto:miles@milessabin.com]
> Sent: 21 July 2002 22:50
> To: www-tag@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Context Independent URI
> 
> Williams, Stuart wrote,
> > So... I have tried to avoid using the term absolute to avoid
> > confusion with absolute and relative URI and tried to focus the
> > principle on the scope of the mapping from URI to resource/concept.
> 
> Umm ... but that renders the "principle" pretty close to hopeless: a 
> relative URI ISA URI, yet is quite clearly context dependent, and quite 
> rightly so.

Yes, I agree, the resource denoted by a relative URI is also context
dependent. What I am trying to pick up is that there are also some
(syntactically) absolute URI (in that they start with a scheme name) that
are also context dependent... eg. URI which use an unqualified domain name
as the assigning authority; file: scheme URI which allow a hostname, but do
not identify the namespace from which the hostname is taken (eg
internet-domain name, DECNet, Novell IPX, Appletalk...).

Do each of the absolute URI file:///etc/passwd or
file://localhost/autoexec.bat or http://cally/ identify a single resource or
concept?

> At the very least the text of the principle needs 
> a bit of serious tweaking.

So... is there a particular 'tweak' that you had in mind?

> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Miles

Thanks,

Stuart

Received on Monday, 22 July 2002 05:02:05 UTC