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tbray@textuality.com (Tim Bray) writes:
>> It would be more consistent
>> for you to attack URIs, QNames, and IP addresses, all of which are
>> universal agreements creating global names,
>
>Well, such universal agreements are expensive. We have two: the IP
>address space and the DNS. ... Can we please stop and not invent
>any more?
We actually have lots more of these agreements, and many of them are
more useful than slapping URIs on whatever happens to come along. I can
imagine a world in which we use URIs for MIME media types and MIME media
features, but I doubt there's much actually benefit there.
I cannot imagine a world in which URIs are used in place of registered
URI schemes, however. (Well, I can, but it's really perverse.)
IP and DNS are two spectacularly expensive label spaces. I don't think
that they are the only models worth considering, however. Given the
likely scope of XPointer, I don't think the wide-open expanses of URI
possibilities make much sense, and something much smaller and perhaps
even managed is worth consideration.
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Simon St.Laurent - SSL is my TLA
http://simonstl.com may be my URI
http://monasticxml.org may be my ascetic URI
urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.6320 is another possibility altogether
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