- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:17:22 -0400
- To: paul@prescod.net
- Cc: "Booth, David (HP Software - Boston)" <dbooth@hp.com>, "Mark Baker" <distobj@acm.org>, "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, "David Orchard" <orchard@pacificspirit.com>, "Williams, Stuart (HP Labs, Bristol)" <skw@hp.com>, "Tim Berners-Lee" <timbl@w3.org>, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
David Booth wrote: > It is fine to embed hints of any kind in HTTP URIs. Paul Prescod wrote: > Can you be more specific about "hints of any kinds?" I think the TAG finding on Metadata in URIs [1] is pertinent in part for discussing the sorts of metadata that can be inferred from a URI, but more importantly, for distinguishing the situations in which you can infer information from >any< URI (e.g. the scheme name) vs. from those in which metadata can be inferred only if licensed by documentation provided by the resource owner (e.g. particular uses of query strings). Noah [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/metaDataInURI-31.html -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 --------------------------------------
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