> On 3 Nov 2020, at 19:49, Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilb...@redhat.com> wrote: > > * Stefan Hajnoczi (stefa...@redhat.com <mailto:stefa...@redhat.com>) wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 12:17:09PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: >>> * Stefan Hajnoczi (stefa...@redhat.com) wrote: >>>> Device Models >>>> ------------- >>>> Devices have a *hardware interface* consisting of hardware registers, >>>> interrupts, and so on. >>>> >>>> The hardware interface together with the device state representation is >>>> called >>>> a *device model*. Device models can be assigned URIs such as >>>> https://qemu.org/devices/e1000e to uniquely identify them. >>> >>> I think this is a unique identifier, not actually a URI; the https:// >>> isn't needed since no one expects to ever connect to this. >> >> Yes, it could be any unique string. If the URI idea is not popular we >> can use any similar scheme. > > I'm OK with it being a URI; just drop the https.
I completely agree. https gives the wrong idea about what this represents. Unless you give it https semantics, by requiring a doc or a schema or whatever to be at the URL, but then you enter another universe of cans of worms.
