- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 16:58:03 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Rick JELLIFFE <ricko@geotempo.com>
- cc: xml-uri@w3.org
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Rick JELLIFFE wrote: [...] > I think they could, iff the RFCs for each access method defined > it as a property. For example, if whatever RFC defines ftp: > said "The property of persistance should not be implied about > a URI that uses the ftp: method". > > I haven't checked all the RFCs, but I don't recall that they do > give this information. So the problem is not URIs but that there > is no way to provide a warrant about them. > > <hobbyhorse>If my idea that > namespace URIs should be used as a base from which well-known > relative URLs could be used to locate various information, such > a warrant could be downloaded for a URL, using PICS I suppose. > Would that require too much of a descent from 50,000 feet? </> Makes sense to me, though I'd prefer pointy brackets and (in http case) content-negotiation to PICS as the mechanism to impart such information. Such disclosure is similar to the privacy-policy disclosures described by P3P, so there might be something to borrow from there... This idea also crops up in http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/NameMyth.html incidentally, excerpted below. Dan (severely WWW9-lagged; reading this list in reverse order) From http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/NameMyth.html [...] Quality of Service Looking at an "http:" URL, while some look more sensible than others, it is not immediately evident whether great pains are being taken to make the name very persistent. We have just discussed such a range of reasons why names can change, and clearly the social and contractual arrangements can be quite involved, so it is clearly difficult to simply define a quality of service for naming. However, defining some well known quality of service levels would be a very useful task. This is the sort of task ideally suited to a group of trechnologies, librraians or archivists. In any event, for identifiers in the http space and many others, it would be useful to be able to assert what the quality of service is. This is information about a URI and a resource. Like the information about generic URIs, it is about the sort of identity between the URI and the resource. Metadata should be used to express the quality of service for the binding between a URI and a resource.
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