- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 22:54:20 -0400
- To: "Amelia A. Lewis" <alewis@tibco.com>
- Cc: www-ws-desc@w3.org
Hi, On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 04:44:55PM -0400, Amelia A. Lewis wrote: > I completely disagree with this. Hey, if you're arguing that some URI scheme designers don't take full advantage of URIs, you're preaching to the choir. But that doesn't refute my point, which was just that URIs in general (i.e. RFC 2396) are designed to be a compact serialization of all the information necessary to interact with what they identify. They are, and they're pretty darned effective when used this way. You might notice that all commonly used URI schemes on the Internet have this property; that's not by accident. > It is not at all accurate to say that the URI that points to the > location where the address may be retrieved, using this complex > structure to identify the address desired, is the same as the URI of the > address desired. The URI *could* be the address desired, if the scheme is designed properly and bound to an application protocol (not a transport protocol). MB -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca Web architecture consulting, technical reports, evaluation & analysis
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