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> WWW NAMES AND ADDRESSES, URIS, URLS, URNS
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> You should be able to reach anything I have on UR* from this page
> directly or indirectly. - TimBL
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>Specifications
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> URI (RFC 1630)
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> Universal Resource Identifiers (URIs) is the name for a generic WWW
> identifier. The URI specification simply defines the syntax for
> encoding arbitrary naming or addressing schemes, and has a list of
> such schemes. See:
> * URI specification: Contents list and list of available forms
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> The specification of URIs as used by WWW is to be distributed with
> informational status in the Internet community. It is also published
> as RFC 1630.
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> URLS
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> The specification of URLs defines the encoding for specific access
> protocols, as defined by the URI WG and edited by various people This
> specification is not stable yet and does not necessarily describe WWW
> practice.
> * Contents list of hypertext document for browsing and reference
> * Availability of the spec in other forms
> * Requirements specification (draft, Kunze)
> * Test suite (Dan Connolly)
> * Oustanding Issues
> * Change History
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> Not part of the specification, now historical:
> * Requirements
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> WWW will use any new forms of naming which give features such as
> persistence and redundancy, when the are available, by extension of
> the set of schemes in the URI.
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> Other published notes:
> * Connolly: A formalism
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> URN
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> So far there is:
> * Requirements document (draft, Sollins and Masinter)
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>Mailing lists
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> This subject is discussed by the URI working group of the IETF (mail
> uri-request@bunyip.com to join).
> * Mailing List Archives
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> The following material may also be of interest:
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>General Background Material
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> * Pointers to background material
> * Discussion materials
> * an old discussion of design issues involved ,
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>UR Terms
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> This is my personal view and explanation.
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> URI
> Universal Resource Idenifier. The generic set of all
> names/addresses which are short strings which refer to objects.
> (Originally UDI in some www documents) See URI spec ..
>
> URL
> Uniform Resource Locators. Term introducted by the IETF in
> forming the URI working group to point out that currently
> available URIs are mainly addresses rather than names. Exactly
> what consitutes a locator as opposed to a name is basically
> lack of persistence, but this is a much discussed point and
> impossible to define precisely. In practice, the set of schmes
> referring to existing protocolls, listed in the URL
> specification .
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> URN
> Uniform Resource Name. 1. Any URI which is not a URL. 2. A
> particular scheme which is currently (1991,2,3,4) under
> development by the IETF, which should provide for the
> resolution using internet protocols of names which have a
> greater persistence than that currently assiated with internet
> host names or organizations. When defined, a URN(1) will be an
> example of a URN(1).
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> | | gopher: | | fpi: ? | |
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> | | etc | | | |
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> | URLs URNs |
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> URIs
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> URC
> Uniform Resource Citation. A set of attribute/value pairs
> describing an object. Some of the values may be URIs of various
> kinds. Others may include, for example, athorship, publisher,
> datatype, date, copyright status and shoe size. Not normally
> discussed as a short string, but a set of fields and values
> with some defined free formatting.
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