W3C URI Design Principles
by Dan Connolly & Addressing

Table of contents

• URI Design Principles
• Overview
• A Philosophy of Standards
• Design Principles
• Principles: Local and Global naming
• Principles: Uniform naming/addressing
• Principles: Opacity: Don´t peek inside
• Principles: Opacity: URIs are not user interface
• Principles: Opacity: Mechanism and Policy
• Don´t reinvent: redirection
• Don´t reinvent: administrative hierarchy
• What does merit a new URI scheme?