On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:38:40AM +0700, Ivan Shmakov <[email protected]> wrote a message of 40 lines which said:
> My point is, that according to the specification [1], the part > immediately after whatever:// is used (roughly) to name the > particular server the content is stored Clearly no. The part after the :// is named the authority and does not have to be a server. To quote the specification (section 3.2): > Many URI schemes include a hierarchical element for a naming > authority so that governance of the name space defined by the > remainder of the URI is delegated to that authority (which may, in > turn, delegate it further). [...] > In many cases, the host syntax is used only for the sake of reusing > the existing registration process created and deployed for DNS, thus > obtaining a globally unique name without the cost of deploying > another registry. [...] In other cases, the data within the host > component identifies a registered name that has nothing to do with > an Internet host. We use the name "host" for the ABNF rule because > that is its most common purpose, not its only purpose. Also, several URI schemes have no "authority" field (isbn: of RFC 3187, tag; of RFC 4151, etc) _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
