- From: Joseph M. Reagle Jr. <reagle@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 18:33:12 -0400
- To: "Dournaee, Blake" <bdournaee@rsasecurity.com>
- Cc: "XML Encryption WG " <xml-encryption@w3.org>
A flippant but accurate reason is that it's the way of the Web. TimBL invented three things and only one was really novel and made the Web the success it is: the URI (then URL), HTTP, and HTML. While HTTP and HTML were nice in that they were simple, transport and closed-system-hypertext long predated the Web. It's the URI that pulled them all together. At 14:43 5/11/2001 -0700, Dournaee, Blake wrote: >Hello, > >I had a general question about the XML Signature Syntax: Why were URIs >chosen as the main means identifying all resources, identifiers, and >references? I can see that this is a very convienent way of doing things, >but I was wondering if there is a little more history to how and why URIs >were chosen for everything? > >Thanks, > >Blake __ Joseph Reagle Jr. http://www.w3.org/People/Reagle/ W3C Policy Analyst mailto:reagle@w3.org IETF/W3C XML-Signature Co-Chair http://www.w3.org/Signature W3C XML Encryption Chair http://www.w3.org/Encryption/2001/
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