Re: [DotGNU]Fwd: "resource locator strings"

[Kent Nguyen]

On Tuesday 17 July 2001 04:37, Jeremy Petzold wrote:
> Yeah, I saw that article on there, however I didn't have time to peruse
> it. I did think about contacting him to see if he could give any insight
> into this area, or even help us, however, I could not seem to find the
> Mailto link on the site :-(.

His email is address@hidden

By this time he should be overflowed with emails.  

--kent

>
> -Jeremy
>
> tali streit wrote:
> > for those of us that don't read /.,
> >
> > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/17/1524238
> >
> > There's an interesting proposal on DaveNet
> > <http://davenet.userland.com/2001/07/17/distributedMembershipAndPreferenc
> >es> about creating a decentralized system for membership in different
> > websites. It's kinda like what Microsoft Passport attempts to do, but
> > without the centralized privacy concerns. It's a concept that we've
> > talked about within OSDN <http://www.osdn.com> - a decentralized login
> > service - and it appears that the protocols are reaching the point that
> > it'd possible and useful. I guess the issue would be what data gets
> > passed around and such.
> >
> > Barry Fitzgerald wrote:
> >> I appreciate your provision of this link.  Thank you :)
> >>
> >>     -Barry
> >>
> >> Aaron Swartz wrote:
> >>> This message appeared on the W3C's URI list.
> >>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/uri/2001Jul/0005
> >>>
> >>>  - Aaron
> >>>
> >>> From: Dan Connolly <address@hidden>
> >>> Date: Tue Jul 17, 2001  12:28:51  PM US/Central
> >>> To: Mark Nottingham <address@hidden>
> >>> Cc: address@hidden
> >>> Subject: Re: "resource locator strings"
> >>>
> >>> Mark Nottingham wrote:
> >>>> I'd be interested to see what URI people think of:
> >>>>  http://www.gnu.org/projects/dotgnu/spec/rls.htm
> >>>
> >>> I would suggest that the syntax be modified to fit
> >>> into the URI generic syntax[1].
> >>>
> >>> for example,
> >>>
> >>>    dotgnu.org:spell:"I wnt to chke my, speeling"
> >>>
> >>> becomes
> >>>
> >>>   rsl://dotgnu.org:spell:"I%20wnt%20to%20chke%20my,%20speeling"
> >>>
> >>> I would suggest it directly to the authors of the rls.htm
> >>> document if that document made their email addresses handy ;-)
> >>> I'd appreciate it if anybody who is in contact with them
> >>> would pass my suggestion along to them.
> >>>
> >>> I was briefed on some aspects of the .NET design by
> >>> one of the designers a while ago; when he got to the
> >>> part where one "assembly" points to another, I immediately
> >>> asked if they're using URIs for that. He reported, with regret,
> >>> that the pointer is just a string. That leaves open the possibility
> >>> of using URIs, but does not mandate it. He had argued to
> >>> use URIs explicitly, but accepted a decision to use plain strings.
> >>>
> >>> I think the .NET design has a lot of good features... the
> >>> Modula-3 guys got a lot of things right; Java borrowed some,
> >>> but .NET borrows even more of the right things.
> >>>
> >>> .NET seems to be less constraining than Java and Corba
> >>> in some important ways. (in particular, in the
> >>> design of the root of the object system, which see
> >>> my unfinished article
> >>>   "Corba is not Mimally Constraining"
> >>>   $Id: oop-min.html,v 1.4 1999/10/02 13:35:20 connolly Exp $
> >>>   http://www.w3.org/Architecture/1998/12/oop-min.html
> >>> and some nearby notes
> >>>   The Web Object Model and Type System
> >>>   http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/DistObjApps
> >>> )
> >>>
> >>> Hence I'm encouraged to see .NET go open source.
> >>> But I hope that the result will be integrated with URIs
> >>> and the Web, not in competition.
> >>>
> >>> [1] August 1998
> >>>      Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax
> >>>      (RFC 2396) T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, L. Masinter
> >>> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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