RE: [xri] Language expression

["Scott Cantor" <cantor.2@osu.edu>]

Drummond Reed wrote on 2010-01-19:
> The reason I agree with Scott is not because I don t believe in structured
> identifiers   as you know I very much do. However I believe Scott s point is
> that with URLs (technically, http: URIs), the entire identifier space under
> the authority belongs to that authority.

That's the "objective argument", but I subjectively also don't agree with using structured identifiers, because I think it's a poor substitute for using markup to express a more complex protocol.

I just don't think flattening everything into a URL is a good approach to extensibility. 

-- Scott