- From: Schleiff, Marty <marty.schleiff@boeing.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:14:30 -0700
- To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Cc: "Mark Baker" <distobj@acm.org>, "Booth, David (HP Software - Boston)" <dbooth@hp.com>, <www-tag@w3.org>
Henry asks: > What is the problem if you do? Even if Boeing isn't party to the ARK story, perhaps some of our business partners are. Perhaps Boeing and some of its partners are also party to the (fictional) Aerospace Research Knowledgebase consortium -- we can be party to more than one party interested in the letters ARK. When we convey a URI like http://boeing.com/ark:/120025/654xz321 to one of our business partners, how are they supposed to tell if it's an ARK identifier or something else? Perhaps it was intended solely as a globally unique identifier, with no intent to support dereferencing. When the business partner is cautious and makes a metadata request, but gets no helpful response (by design or by network outage), how do they divine the intent of the URI? Marty.Schleiff@boeing.com; CISSP Associate Technical Fellow - Cyber Identity Specialist Information Security - Technical Controls (206) 679-5933 -----Original Message----- From: Henry S. Thompson [mailto:ht@inf.ed.ac.uk] Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 1:38 PM To: Schleiff, Marty Cc: Mark Baker; Booth, David (HP Software - Boston); www-tag@w3.org Subject: Re: Boeing XRI Use Cases -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Schleiff, Marty writes: > I'm not happy with the ARK approach, because my company may have > reason to mint a URI like http://boeing.com/ark:/120025/654xz321 that > has nothing to do with ARK, and has no relationship to the object > identified by http://loc.gov/ark:/12025/654xz321 or > http://rutgers.edu/ark:/12025/654xz321. What is the problem if you do? If Boeing isn't a party to the ARK story, then it is under no obligation to behave according to that story when it handles GET requests. And of course, in a way parallel to the WEBDAV story told elsewhere in this thread, a cautious user of ARK-based URIs will make a metadata request (via an empty query string) to confirm that they have an ARK URI before proceeding based on that assumption ht - -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh Half-time member of W3C Team 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail really from me _always_ has this .sig -- mail without it is forged spam] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIfQrBkjnJixAXWBoRAswXAJ9SUed4tkAfAQ55IaPeM2eaznAE2gCdFHmb fvx/mG62rrxWqUwnbo9VtvY= =giI7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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