ACTION-402 Summarize JAR's message to HT re HTTP-based naming and put on the agenda

Per ACTION-402 Summarize JAR's message to HT re HTTP-based naming and
put [its topic?] on the agenda

Re ISSUE-50 URNsAndRegistries, Henry and I wanted to talk about the
issue of trust in URIs. The particular way in which binding and
resolution are linked in http: space leads to a certain degree of
mistrust because it creates single points of administrative failure
("the frailty of human institutions"). For example, an archivist,
librarian, or court would never allow a URI to stand by itself as a
reference, but would allow other forms of reference to stand. The
residual mistrust and single point of failure have always seemed
inevitable (this has been the central argument of the ISSUE-50 draft
documents), but the fact that society *has* created conventions of
reference that are highly trusted, lack SPFs, and are resolvable
(after a fashion) suggests that maybe they are not inevitable. We
wanted to present some ideas along these lines and consider how one
might create a useable, trustworthy naming system in URI space (maybe
even in http: URI space).

Jonathan

Received on Wednesday, 17 March 2010 20:08:12 UTC