Re: Dereferencing Identity Constructs

2005-02-01 Thread Danny Ayers
I'm a little confused over what's being proposed or counterproposed here - I thought consensus last year was to break the Web Whatever, I do think id URIs should be treated as URIs according to webarch etc - it should be possible to dereference them, assuming that's supported by the scheme.

Re: Dereferencing Identity Constructs

2005-01-31 Thread Graham
On 31 Jan 2005, at 4:22 am, Tim Bray wrote: OFor ongoing, I plan to use the same http: URIs for both the atom:id and link rel=alternate; I will manage (and have managed) my URI space so that they will meet the requirements of permanence, uniqueness, and so on. In this case the atom:id URI will

Re: Dereferencing Identity Constructs

2005-01-31 Thread Henry Story
On 31 Jan 2005, at 05:22, Tim Bray wrote: On Jan 30, 2005, at 7:10 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote: The content of an Identity construct SHOULD NOT be dereferenced, even when it comes from a normally dereferencable scheme. There is no requirement for the content to represent a URI where a

Re: Dereferencing Identity Constructs

2005-01-31 Thread Dan Brickley
* Henry Story [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-01-31 16:25+0100] On 31 Jan 2005, at 05:22, Tim Bray wrote: On Jan 30, 2005, at 7:10 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote: The content of an Identity construct SHOULD NOT be dereferenced, even when it comes from a normally dereferencable scheme. There is

Re: Dereferencing Identity Constructs

2005-01-31 Thread Lance Lavandowska
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 19:28:05 -0800, Mark Nottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about Dereferencability of Identity Constructs? That should discourage most everyone from reading that section. Lance

Re: Dereferencing Identity Constructs

2005-01-31 Thread Graham
On 31 Jan 2005, at 3:40 pm, Tim Bray wrote: Uh, it seems that you're assuming that can be dereferenced is equivalent to will be unstable. I disagree. -Tim I agree it's possible for links to be stable. But giving the id a functional purpose as an address introduces all sorts of reasons to

Re: Dereferencing Identity Constructs

2005-01-31 Thread Paul Hoffman
H. The dead horse comes to life with more beating. At the risk of causing further consternation and time-wasting... At 7:28 PM -0800 1/30/05, Mark Nottingham wrote: How about Dereferencability of Identity Constructs? Works for me. At 10:30 PM -0500 1/30/05, Robert Sayre wrote: Well, it seems

Re: Dereferencing Identity Constructs

2005-01-31 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 11:47 AM -0500 1/31/05, Robert Sayre wrote: How about this: [Last sentence of the first paragraph, combined 3.5.1 and 3.5, altered first paragraph in Comparing] 3.5 Identity Constructs An Identity construct is an element whose content conveys a permanent, universally unique identifier

Re: Dereferencing Identity Constructs

2005-01-31 Thread Tim Bray
On Jan 31, 2005, at 8:47 AM, Robert Sayre wrote: Paul Hoffman wrote: At 10:30 PM -0500 1/30/05, Robert Sayre wrote: Well, it seems silly to use a dereferencable scheme if you don't want the URI dereferenced. I agree, but there was broad WG consensus on this months ago. It is too late to revisit

Dereferencing Identity Constructs

2005-01-30 Thread Graham
3.5.1 Dereferencing Identity Constructs The content of an Identity construct MAY be dereferencable (e.g. an HTTP URI). However, processors MUST NOT assume it to be dereferencable. The first sentence doesn't say anything. The second is good but doesn't go far enough. The content

Re: Dereferencing Identity Constructs

2005-01-30 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 5:11 PM + 1/30/05, Graham wrote: 3.5.1 Dereferencing Identity Constructs The content of an Identity construct MAY be dereferencable (e.g. an HTTP URI). However, processors MUST NOT assume it to be dereferencable. The first sentence doesn't say anything. The second is good

Re: Dereferencing Identity Constructs

2005-01-30 Thread Mark Nottingham
a section with this name is asking for trouble. We could change it to Not Dereferencing Identity Constructs... How about Dereferencability of Identity Constructs? -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/

Re: Dereferencing Identity Constructs

2005-01-30 Thread Robert Sayre
Paul Hoffman wrote: At 5:11 PM + 1/30/05, Graham wrote: The content of an Identity construct SHOULD NOT be dereferenced, even when it comes from a normally dereferencable scheme. There is no requirement for the content to represent a URI where a version of the feed or entry may

Re: Dereferencing Identity Constructs

2005-01-30 Thread Joe Gregorio
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:30:16 -0500, Robert Sayre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Hoffman wrote: At 5:11 PM + 1/30/05, Graham wrote: The content of an Identity construct SHOULD NOT be dereferenced, even when it comes from a normally dereferencable scheme. There is no

Re: Dereferencing Identity Constructs

2005-01-30 Thread Tim Bray
On Jan 30, 2005, at 7:10 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote: The content of an Identity construct SHOULD NOT be dereferenced, even when it comes from a normally dereferencable scheme. There is no requirement for the content to represent a URI where a version of the feed or entry may be found. I'm

Re: Dereferencing Identity Constructs

2005-01-30 Thread Eric Scheid
On 31/1/05 3:22 PM, Tim Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When using atom:id to ascertain whether two Atom entries or feeds are the same, such operations MUST be based only on the URI character strings, and MUST NOT rely on dereferencing the URIs. +1