foo... wrong email address, and the bounce notice got lost in the Sobig.F bucket. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/Forwarded message 1
These discussions often refer to "the owner of the URI", which begs questions of whether all URIs have owners, how many, and such. I suggest that the case of http://www.ford.com/ being owned by Ford Motor company is, while very common, not the general case. It belongs to the pattern where the Internet Community delegates (via the IANA URI scheme registry and the DNS), authority over a set of URIs with a common prefix to one particular owner. Consider news:comp.text.xml . The Web Community has come to agree that it refers to a "big 7" USENET newsgroup without delegating authority to any one party in paricular, but rather thru a time-honored process set out in How to Create a New Usenet Newsgroup http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/creating-newsgroups/part1/ (I tried to find a path from the URI scheme registry http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes to that how-to document; the path goes quite happily thru RFC 1738 (December 1994) http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/rfc/rfc1738.html to RFC 1036 (December 1987) http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/rfc/rfc1036.html where we find "Newsgroups specified must all be the names of existing newsgroups" but the trail goes cold there. I think this is just failure of the RFC maintenence system to keep up with community practice.) Anyway... I think the general case is that a URI has meaning to the extent that there's consensus in the Internet Community about what it means, as expressed in Internet protocol messages, especially messages that express a relationship between a URI and a representation of what it means; and that the HTTP/DNS case is, while very common, a special case where the Web Community has delegated authority to one party (and that delegation has limits, as we see in the Verisign SiteFinder case). [I think I'll send this now rather than figuring out how it relates to the proceedings of this forum or to www-tag or whatever.] -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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