[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: URI intents? (was: RDDL: Negotiate out the Noise)
Jonathan Borden scripsit: > Maybe the only URIs that are not intended to be resolved are those that are > not associated with a network protocol. I thought the URI scheme "urn" was > for that, but people have created protocols to resolve "urn:"s so this isn't > necessarily true. No, indeed. The point of URNs (meaning URIs beginning "urn:") is not that they can't be resolved, but that they aren't bound to a specific use of some specific protocol. An urn:isbn: URI probably can't be resolved, unless the book is an electronic one; OTOH, an urn:newsml:reutershealth.com URN definitely can be, though we don't currently provide a publicly accessible URN resolver. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@c... Please leave your values | Check your assumptions. In fact, at the front desk. | check your assumptions at the door. --sign in Paris hotel | --Miles Vorkosigan
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