RE: [xml-dev] On the use of HTTP as a Substrate

[Michael Brennan <Michael_Brennan@Allegis.com>]

> From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@simonstl.com]

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> A recent Best Current Practices RFC well worth a read, whether or not
> you agree with it:
> http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc3205.txt

As a bit of an aside, althought this note discusses services, its discussion
of use of the "http:" scheme seems to imply that using "http:" URIs as
opaque names, rather than resource locators, is bad practice, as well.

It's nice that the IETF, at least, appreciates the value in those schemes.