Alan et al,
Wow, great topic. I'll need to get my thoughts together on this.
Meanwhile, operationally what a uri "means" is clearly related to the
question of its (non)persistence. I recently found a wonderful
historical review of this topic from the point of view of a library
scientist. The group might enjoy it:
http://www.aallnet.org/products/pub_llj_v97n04/2005-42.pdf
John
On Jun 18, 2006, at 1234, Alan Ruttenberg wrote:
[It was on this list: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-
semweb-lifesci/2006Jun/0149]
-Alan'
On Jun 18, 2006, at 12:20 PM, John Madden wrote:
I can't locate the beginning of this thread. Did the discussion
start on another list?
Thanks.
John
On Jun 17, 2006, at 1708, Eric Neumann wrote:
This is a very useful and important discussion thread, and I
would like to see others on the list to contribute their thoughts/
concerns as well.
May I ask all the contributors to include HTML links to any
acronyms they reference (e.g., NAPTR)? This will make it easier
for the rest of us to catch up quickly, and to eventually collect
the approaches out there into a comprehensive list of viable
implementations.
thanks,
Eric
--- Sean Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> MW>
> MW> I believe this SRV-redirection behaviour is part
> of the LSID spec, and
> MW> we use it for all of the BioMOBY LSIDs...
> MW>
>
> It also uses NAPTR's as described in IETF RFC's
> 3401->3405 to traverse the
> URN namespace, allowing the dereferencing process to
> bridge the gap that
> separates authority name strings from service
> locations. From what I
> recall, the URN specs specifically do not permit
> names and locations to be
> confounded.
>
> Kindest regards, Sean
>
> --
> Sean Martin
> IBM Corp.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on
> 06/16/2006 12:59:12 PM:
>
> >
> > On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 10:41 -0400, Alan Ruttenberg
> wrote:
> >
> > > something, but as far as I can see, the only
> authority related to
> > > namespaces in URLs is the DNS, and while there
> is the SRV field which
> > > might be used to direct someone to information
> about the namespace, I
> > > don't know whether anyone does.
> >
> >
> > I believe this SRV-redirection behaviour is part
> of the LSID spec, and
> > we use it for all of the BioMOBY LSIDs...
> >
> > M
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > --
> > Mark Wilkinson
> > Asst. Professor, Dept. of Medical Genetics
> > University of British Columbia
> > PI in Bioinformatics, iCAPTURE Centre
> > St. Paul's Hospital, Rm. 166, 1081 Burrard St.
> > Vancouver, BC, V6Z 1Y6
> > tel: 604 682 2344 x62129
> > fax: 604 806 9274
> >
> > "For most of this century we have viewed
> communications as a conduit,
> > a pipe between physical locations on the
> planet.
> > What's happened now is that the conduit has become
> so big and
> interesting
> > that communication has become more than a
> conduit,
> > it has become a destination in its own
> right..."
> >
> > Paul Saffo - Director, Institute
> for the Future
> >
> >
>
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