Re: Use of metadata in URIs

Hi!

On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 03:48:43PM +0100, Williams, Stuart wrote:
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> However, at least the http: spec. in RFC2616 seems to appeal to the notion
> of authority in RFC2396 - many of the other scheme specifications pre-date
> RFC2396 and (understandably) make no mention of 'authority'.

RFC2616 assumes that the URL is actually used to retrieve something, so
the notion of a "naming authority" makes some sense. But nobody can stop
me from issuing the URI

   http://www.w3.org/thispathwillneverexist

as long as I never expect anyone to actually resolve it, e.g. as a
namespace identifier. I think the term "naming authority" is misleading.
"location authority" or "resolution authority" would, IMHO, make more
sense.

Joern

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