On 4/25/06 8:04 PM, "Edward Summers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Apr 25, 2006, at 6:47 PM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: >> FWIW, I like Xiaoming's suggestion. > > I'm glad Xiaoming expressed the case for URI so well. Me too. > I just added it > to the uid-brainstorming [1] page. I have to admit I've seen the need > for a identifying URIs elsewhere and when Tantek pinged microformats- > discuss with a straw proposal [2] that would help the LiveClipboard > and upcoming.org folks I saw an opening to sneak in functionality for > marking up URIs more generally. But I think there are two questions here. 1. Marking up URIs more generally. 2. Marking up *the* URI for an item (this is what I believe is meant by UID). The UID microformat discussion is attempting to solve the latter, though it is reasonable to at least document our thoughts on the former. > The naming 'uri' vs 'uid' aside, would it be reasonable to RECOMMEND > that a URI is used (thus including URLs) and leaving the door open to > less useful ids should people want to use them? Yes, and I have just added similar details to uid-brainstorming, preferring URLs first, then URNs. > This would allow the > current hCard behavior to be preserved: > > "UID in vCard simply becomes another semantic applied to a specific > URL (or EMAIL) for an hCard." Agreed. > As Xiaoming suggests both 'http' and 'mailto' are valid URI schemes > in RFC4395. Allowing a UID this flexibility would mean a UID could > serve as a module that hCard and hCalendar (and perhaps an hCite and > others) reference. Agreed. > //Ed > > [1] http://microformats.org/wiki/uid-brainstorming#Proposals > [2] http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006- > April/003726.html Thanks especially for writing this up on the wiki Ed, and helping clarify these matters. This discussion has been *very* useful. Thanks to everyone who has braved this passionate thread to help move things forward. Tantek _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
