- From: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 10:00:18 -0700
- To: "'Ted Hardie'" <ted.ietf@gmail.com>, "'Keith Moore'" <moore@cs.utk.edu>, <www-tag@w3.org>
- CC: <uri-review@ietf.org>, <urn-nid@apps.ietf.org>, "'David Booth'" <david@dbooth.org>
A couple of cross pointers: I'd like to bring a couple of threads together: the discussion in the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) on URIs as names (recent thread 'larry's position on URIs as names') starting with http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2010May/0033.html ) and the discussion on urn-nid@apps.ietf.org http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/urn-nid/current/maillist.html starting around May 21 2010 on "URI for identifying a host" around whether it's possible or meaningful to define a URI scheme that identified a "host" when there was no, or confusing, operational definition of what, exactly, a "host" was, and how it might be identified. The question comes down to whether URIs effectively can identify something for which there is no clear operational definition. I should also point out the proposal for a URNbis working group in IETF at http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/urn/current/maillist.html and the charter there, and suggest that some coordination between URNbis and W3C would be useful here. Larry -- http://larry.masinter.net
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