[topicmapmail] Proposed info: scheme

[Murray Altheim]

Looks interesting, esp. with Stu Weibel's name on it. This will
perhaps throw a monkey wrench into the current URI discussions, or
at the very least make life more challenging (how many layers/levels
of namespaces can one handle without a cerebral hemorrhage?).

   "The 'info' URI Scheme for Information Assets with Identifiers in
    Public Namespaces", Van de Sompel, Hammond, Neylon, Weibel. Sept 2003.
   http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-vandesompel-info-uri-00.txt

   Abstract

       This document defines the "info" Uniform Resource Identifier
       (URI) scheme for information assets with identifiers in public
       namespaces. Namespaces participating in the "info" URI scheme
       are regulated by an "info" Registry mechanism.
       [...]

This may have some effect upon our PSI implementation ideas, though
I don't see this as in any way damaging. [I'm quite happy with PURLs
for now, really.]

Murray

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Murray Altheim                    http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/murray/
Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University, Milton Keynes, Bucks, MK7 6AA, UK               .

   The world, Bush said, is now riven by "the clearest of divides:
   between those who seek order and those who spread chaos; between
   those who work for peaceful change and those who adopt the methods
   of gangsters; between those who honor the rights of man and those
   who deliberately take the lives of men and women and children
   without mercy or shame. Between these alternatives there is no
   neutral ground."
   http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/09/24/MN298975.DTL

   Actions speak louder than words, and I think it's pretty clear
   which side of the divide Bush is on.