Re: Resolving btv URLs

   Also, the URIs would not be entirely opaque. For example, a URI referring to
   a data item in a data carousel being broadcast as part of a data event could
	...

I'd like to clarify before we all get confused.

URIs are opaque to the client in the same sense that they currently
are on the WWW: relative forms work and the client can construct URIs,
but by and large they are simply strings.

What Gomer discussed is an important part of making the design
efficient, but not relevant for a basic understanding.  One of the
optimizations that we designed in is to take advantage of the existing
mapping information so as to cut down (substantially) on the amount of
additional information to be sent.

Many documents relevant to btv: can be found at:

	http://www.finseth.com/~fin/uri

Craig

Received on Wednesday, 12 May 1999 17:44:36 UTC