- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:57:07 -0400
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Cc: Misha Wolf <Misha.Wolf@reuters.com>, public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org, semantic-web@w3.org, semantic-web-request@w3.org, www-tag@w3.org
Roy Fielding writes: > All URIs are dereferenceable, not just http URIs -- some > schemes are less amenable to that than others, but there is no > reason to say "http" here. Well, I meant to be silent on the status of non-http schemes. Clearly there are many other schemes that are typically deferfenceable, and I think I understand the sense in which you mean that all are at least in principle. In practice, there is much less deployed infrastructure for dereferencing some other schemes, such as urn, and I didn't want to open that side debate here, which I think might have happened if I had suggested that representations should be deployed for all namespaces, regardless of scheme. I do agree that it's a good thing to do, not just for http-scheme URIs, but whenever practical. Turning the argument around, the widespread avaialbility of infrastructure for manipulating http resources is among the reasons for encouraging use of http URIs as names for namespaces. -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 --------------------------------------
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