RE: URI for abstract concepts (domain, host, origin, site, etc.)

Not sure how this is going to help. You still end up with an HTTP URI with no clear semantic meaning other than an HTTP resource.

EHL

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan@ccil.org]
> Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 6:03 PM
> To: Eran Hammer-Lahav
> Cc: Xiaoshu Wang; apps-discuss@ietf.org; www-tag@w3.org; URI
> Subject: Re: URI for abstract concepts (domain, host, origin, site,
> etc.)
> 
> Eran Hammer-Lahav scripsit:
> 
> > Without passing judgment on your proposal, it is clearly not
> something
> > that can be accomplished within a short time frame. I have a very
> > specific need to indicate a document describes "a host" which is a
> > combination of domain, port, and potentially protocol. I just need to
> > say it formatted as a URI.
> 
> A simple approach would be to use a data: URI (see RFC 2397) of the
> form
> "data:application/uri,http://www.ccil.org".  I proposed this for a
> related
> purpose during the Great XML Namespace Debate, but it didn't get
> traction.
> 
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