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Subject: RE: [xri] Explicitly non-resolvable XRIs
I don't think version (or any $ tag) would work for non-resolvability because it applies to segments rather than the XRI as a whole. It's also not available in the URI-authority portion which is a place it seems like we'd need it. I suppose you could do something like xri:(xri://foo.com).($n) to show that xri://foo.com is unresolvable, but that doesn't seem ideal to me. I may also just be misunderstanding your proposal. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Marc LeMaitre [mailto:marc.lemaitre@onename.com] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 7:54 PM To: Dave McAlpin; xri@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: RE: [xri] Explicitly non-resolvable XRIs Could you put meta data in the version syntax that indicated that the XRI points to an unresolvable resource? That way an identifier could point to a non-resolvable resource in one version and a resolvable resource the next without having to change the main body of the XRI. Marc -----Original Message----- From: Dave McAlpin [mailto:dave.mcalpin@epokinc.com] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 7:36 PM To: xri@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: [xri] Explicitly non-resolvable XRIs There's a desire to provide syntax that marks an XRI as explicitly unresolvable. Draft-06 includes a bang "!" character in the authority-part production for this purpose. As noted in the issues list, this causes several problems with XRIs that contain a URI-authority. For example, software that knows how to handle generic URIs will see the ! as part of the server component (most likely the hostname component), where it's an illegal character. I'm suggesting we define a different scheme, xrin, that's identical to xri except that it explicitly disallows resolution. Thoughts or comments? Dave
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