> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xiaoshu Wang [mailto:
wangxiao@...]
> Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 4:24 PM
> What we need is a special syntax to mean that a URI denotes for itself.
> Just like in natural language, that we use quotation mark to
> distinguish
> between the word "New York City" and New York City. Once we have that,
> then we are free to define any ontology to describe the composition of
> a URI, just like anything else.
Without passing judgment on your proposal, it is clearly not something that can be accomplished within a short time frame. I have a very specific need to indicate a document describes "a host" which is a combination of domain, port, and potentially protocol. I just need to say it formatted as a URI.
> Proposing anything else is simply an over-kill, let alone another URN.
If anything, it is your proposal that is an over-kill.
EHL
