Re: [metaDataInURI-31]: Initial draft finding for public review/ comme nt.

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/ "Williams, Stuart" <skw@hp.com> was heard to say:
|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: Norman Walsh [mailto:Norman.Walsh@sun.com] 
|> Sent: 10 July 2003 20:12
|> To: www-tag@w3.org
|> Subject: Re: [metaDataInURI-31]: Initial draft finding for 
|> public review/comme nt.
|
| <snip/>
|> | But before you can even broach that you have to decide on whether URIs 
|> | should
|> | be opaque or not. That is where consensus must first be guaged.
|> 
|> Handed a random URI about which you know nothing, my position 
|> is that it is opaque and you've got no business peeking 
|> inside it trying to guess stuff.
|
| So I can agree with that. 
|
| No guessing... at most I'd only want to know what the relevant authoritative
| spec(s) (preferably a standards) allowed me to know.
|
| In terms of knowing nothing... does that means not knowing RFC2396? Not
| knowing the particular scheme in question?
|
| What if I do know 2396(bis) and the scheme in question?

I suppose one can reasonably know the protocol and for some protocols
additional information about the URI, but I don't think any of these
things really counts as metadata in any significant way.

In fact, I think this could be described as a syntactic understanding
of the URI as opposed to any sort of semantic understanding.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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