- From: Jonathan Borden <jborden@mediaone.net>
- Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 11:11:36 -0400
- To: <michaelm@netsol.com>, "Al Gilman" <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
- Cc: <xml-uri@w3.org>
Michael Mealling wrote: > Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 9:32 AM > To: Al Gilman > Cc: Jonathan Borden; xml-uri@w3.org > Subject: Re: are 'cid' URLs relative? > > > On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 09:36:00AM -0500, Al Gilman wrote: > > At 10:53 PM 2000-05-25 -0400, Jonathan Borden wrote: > > [sorry to have to belabor the correction of a minor red herring...] > > Not really. This actually applies to several URI schemes.... > Ok then what about the "file" or "news" scheme as pointed out by Michael Rys: > ... Another example would be two namespace > names using textually equal, absolute URIs that are not globally unique, > such as "news:ibm.aplsv" or "file:foo.txt". These URIs are absolute but not > globally unique because they depending on the associated newsserver or > fileserver, and may be different when dereferenced by the same process in > different contexts. The point being that many commonly used URI schemes in fact employ context information for resource resolution and are in this sense relative. Jonathan Borden
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