Re: now://example.org/car (was lack of consensus on httpRange-14)

If you want to follow that path, there's Larry Masinter's proposal for 
'tdb:' URIs:

   http://larry.masinter.net/duri.html

#g
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At 03:20 PM 10/4/02 -0700, Micah Dubinko wrote:
> >From the TAG f2f minutes:
>
>[ChrisL]
>     now://example.org/car
>     Where 'now' is defined to be a
>     non-dereferencable protocol
>
>Other than this short statement, I couldn't find any other references in the
>minutes about this idea.
>
>Graham Klyne separately suggested:
>
>  http://id.ninebynine.org/people/gk/ to identify a person
>and
>  http://www.ninebynine.org/Ident/people/gk/ to identity a web page.
>
>With a small twist, that could be:
>
>  now://www.ninebynine.org/Ident/people/gk/ to identify a person
>and
>  http://www.ninebynine.org/Ident/people/gk/ to identify a web page
>
>
> >From the viewpoint of a web developer, it makes sense to differentiate
>between network-accessible and non-network-accessible resources. A trivial
>transform ('now:' -> 'http:') can provide additional details on the abstract
>thing-that-means-whatever-the-DNS-owner-defines-it-to-be.
>
>Thoughts from the TAG?
>
>.micah

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Graham Klyne
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Received on Monday, 7 October 2002 10:06:41 UTC