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Oren Ben-Kiki writes:
> Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@s...> wrote:
> >How much more weight should we really be putting on URIs? We're going to
> >need to be issuing directories of URIs and their meanings in different
> >(Web, namespaces, now XLink) context if this keeps up. I realize that
> >they're about the only mechanism for which large-scale unique registration
> >is currently available, but wow, this could be genuinely ugly in a few
> >years (even months!).
>
> It's genuinely ugly already :-) As you point out, don't really have a
> choice. The alternatives have been pretty thoroughly discussed in the SAX
> extensions naming threads a few months back, and all boil down to URIs or
> something else based on DNS.
One possible solution would be to define a new URL protocol that
builds on HTTP URLs -- not as fancy as URNs, but they would build on
something that exists and is well understood:
hname://www.megginson.com/ns/
It's not enough simply to build on DNS, since many people have rights
(however temporary) over part of a path but not over an entire host
name, as is the case for my account on Sprynet:
http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/dmeggins/
In place of this, you could use
hname://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/dmeggins/namespace/
(for example) to build on this tiny patch of Web real-estate that I
rent.
All the best,
David
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