- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 11:10:40 -0400
- To: "Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress" <rden@loc.gov>
- Cc: "Schleiff, Marty" <marty.schleiff@boeing.com>, "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, www-tag@w3.org
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress <rden@loc.gov> wrote: > > The most perplexing aspect (to me) of this whole XRI business is the > discussion of URI schemes. I was sure we had established that XRI is not a > proposed URI scheme, it is something else, a higher-level identifier, or > something (actually I don't think it has ever been definitively > characterized in terms of its relationship to a URI scheme.) > > Yet the discussion still seems to center on "[T]he unbounded registration > of new schemes ...". > > What am I missing? Prior to the Web, we had an abundance of information spaces, one for pretty much every area of work, study, etc.. you could identify. Another name for these spaces was "silos". What the Web did, was provide an "information space of information spaces", allowing these silos to plug in to a unified space whereby they could exchange information with other silos... which of course means that they were no longer silos. URI scheme proliferation is not the problem here IMO, just a symptom of the real problem: information space proliferation. If you can avoid creating a new information space, you should, no matter what identifier syntax you're using. Mark.
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