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

[Barry Fitzgerald]

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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