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 authorit
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
Hi Tony,
Thanks for the clarification. I took a closer look at the spec and have
come comments:
- Normalization. Upon review of rfc 2396, prompted by reading the
normalization rules, it strikes me that all of these are problematic
because they require scheme dependent logic for comparin
Hi Alan,
AR> b) The URI is used primarily as
a name. Insofar as we want use
AR> names, it is important there be some stable URIs. Of course it
AR> doesn't hurt if the URI becomes dereferenceable at some point, and
it
AR> would even be nice,
AR> d) Any URL we use needs to be
able to
Hi Alan:
Just to clarify one point re INFO. You say:
>a) The identifier is not intended to be dereferencable. In that
> case the info: scheme was suggested for the form of the uri, as that
> is explicitly not dereferenceable.
This is not actually quite true - but represents an earlier posit
