Re: [FileAPI] URL, URI, URN | Re: [FileAPI] Latest Revision of Editor's Draft

2009-11-18 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Julian Reschke julian.resc...@gmx.de wrote: 3. We could not directly call out a URI scheme at all.  The benefit of doing this is we can specify *behavior* without actually getting into details about the actual identifier scheme used.  But, the chief reason to

Re: [FileAPI] URL, URI, URN | Re: [FileAPI] Latest Revision of Editor's Draft

2009-11-18 Thread Julian Reschke
Jonas Sicking wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Julian Reschke julian.resc...@gmx.de wrote: 3. We could not directly call out a URI scheme at all. The benefit of doing this is we can specify *behavior* without actually getting into details about the actual identifier scheme used. But,

Re: [FileAPI] URL, URI, URN | Re: [FileAPI] Latest Revision of Editor's Draft

2009-11-18 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:03:23 +0100, Arun Ranganathan a...@mozilla.com wrote: 1. We could coin a new scheme such as the originally proposed filedata: scheme. This has the advantages of associating behavior (and semantics) with a scheme, so that existing schemes aren't confused or co-opted

Re: [FileAPI] URL, URI, URN | Re: [FileAPI] Latest Revision of Editor's Draft

2009-11-18 Thread Julian Reschke
Robin Berjon wrote: ... Couldn't we just register a URN NID for this? It seems that one has to go through fewer hurdles, and no matter how transient I believe that it's a useful thing to identify. ... Yes, that's possible and probably would cause less eyebrows being raised... BR, Julian

Re: [FileAPI] URL, URI, URN | Re: [FileAPI] Latest Revision of Editor's Draft

2009-11-18 Thread Robin Berjon
On Nov 18, 2009, at 13:13 , Julian Reschke wrote: Robin Berjon wrote: ... Couldn't we just register a URN NID for this? It seems that one has to go through fewer hurdles, and no matter how transient I believe that it's a useful thing to identify. ... Yes, that's possible and probably

Re: [FileAPI] URL, URI, URN | Re: [FileAPI] Latest Revision of Editor's Draft

2009-11-17 Thread Julian Reschke
Arun Ranganathan wrote: Is there a particular reason why a specific URI scheme needs to be called out at all? (there are other schemes that may be more flexible, for instance because they allow using a UUID/String pair for identification). This is a useful question to answer :) I assume