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Re: URI for abstract concepts (domain, host, origin, site, etc.)

by Timur Shemsedinov :: Rate this Message:

Hello,

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@...> wrote:

I would like to ask for feedback on the idea of proposing a new URI scheme or a new URN namespace for this purpose, something like 'abstract'.
It will look something like this (please focus on the idea, not the syntax of the examples):

urn:abstract:domain:example.com
urn:abstract:host:example.com:8080
urn:abstract:origin:example.com:8080:http

I think URN is not applicable for those URIs, because all those URIs includes complete information for resource location, so you should use URLs (but not http urls).

or

abstract://example.com/domain
abstract://example.com:8080/host
abstract://example.com:8080:http/origin

Any comments, feedback, or concerns would be greatly appreciated.

"abstract" schema name is not a good idea, because level of such abstraction is unclear. "abstract" is too abstract word
Better use "host" for listed purposed, like in example:

If wou wont to identify/locate domains use host:example.com
If wou wont to identify/locate service on port use host:example.com:8080
If wou wont to identify/locate exact http on port 8080 use http://example.com:8080
If wou wont to identify/locate host by ip use host:208.77.188.166

note that you can not use "://" if URL is not designed to locate resource associated with path as in http

~Timur

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