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

[tali streit]

for those of us that don't read /.,

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/17/1524238

There's an interesting proposal on DaveNet 
<http://davenet.userland.com/2001/07/17/distributedMembershipAndPreferences> 
about creating a decentralized system for membership in different 
websites. It's kinda like what Microsoft Passport attempts to do, but 
without the centralized privacy concerns. It's a concept that we've 
talked about within OSDN <http://www.osdn.com> - a decentralized login 
service - and it appears that the protocols are reaching the point that 
it'd possible and useful. I guess the issue would be what data gets 
passed around and such.


Barry Fitzgerald wrote:

> 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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