- From: Olivier Fehr <Olivier.Fehr@ofehr.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:23:50 +0200
- To: "Williams, Stuart" <skw@hp.com>
- Cc: <www-tag@w3.org>
I read the draft finding with interest. I would agree with the TAG that the finding should end before 2. Essentially because you made the very good point that as 'the authority' for the namespace I control, I can do pretty much what I like (within the rules of standards and specification - maybe even outside). But to be useful to others, I will have to show some stability and predictability to others who would like to use my service otherwise I'll be out of business soon. So this area might be self-regulating. Part 2, for me would be more suited for something like 'best practices'. Cheers Olivier -----Original Message----- From: www-tag-request@w3.org [mailto:www-tag-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Williams, Stuart Sent: lundi, 29. septembre 2003 16:49 To: 'Larry Masinter' Cc: www-tag@w3.org <snip>... </snip> I was actually trying to explore from two perspectives... that of an assignment authority (and the infrastructure under their control, eg. origin servers - and maybe CDNs); and that of 'observers' of URI assigned outside of their own authority. It seems to me that the 'freedoms' to read something into a URI are different from each perspective. > I don't think the web architecture is (or can be) > clear about the notion of "authority". It's some terminology > that has crept into many of the discussions about URIs and > their meaning, and I think it's misplaced. <snip>... </snip ..., and I believe a number of others, are under the impression that wrt to URI schemes which use DNS host names in the authority field, then the governing authority for "the remainder of the URI" is the 'owner' (yes poorly defined ownership relation) of the DNS host name. Ie. the URI spec. delegates assignment authority to the scheme spec.; the scheme spec. (in this case) delegates URI assignment authority to the 'owner' of the DNS host name... and in parallel the DNS system delegates 'ownership' of DNS names though a registration process root at the top and delegated through top-level domains and beyond. This chain of delegation did (does) make sense to me - with the possiblity of the delegation chains terminating in a spec. rather than with a machine or a person or an organisation (modulo organisations being responsible for specs.). [Olivier says] To me too, I have understood your use of the word 'authority' in exactly that sense.
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