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IETF Draft Sets up Public Namespaces

Posted by michael on from the true-names dept.

figlet writes "A new IETF draft is out (URI Scheme for Information Assets with Identifiers in Public Namespaces). It is a very cool idea and basically introduces namespaces through a new URI scheme. These would be used to refer to resources within their own context. NISO will be the registry for public namespaces. Example (from Herbert Van de Sompel): 'For example, assuming that the namespace of Dewey Decimal Classifications (ddc:) and the namespace of Library of Congress Control Numbers (lccn:) would be registered by their respective authorities, then: the Dewey Decimal Classification 22/eng//004.678 (for the term "Internet") could be expressed as the "info" URI:<info:ddc/22/eng//004.678> and the Library of Congress Control Number 2002022641 could be expressed as the "info" URI <info:lccn/2002022641>.' NISO is going to act as the 'info' registry. Very neat. This basically sets up a parallel web of info spaces, where http/DNS space is just one of many, and anyone can register their namespace 'domain'. Way cool!!"

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  1. Dibs by dze · · Score: 5, Funny

    I call dibs on the pr0n:// namespace!

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  2. Proposal for the IETF... by grub · · Score: 4, Funny

    URI
    URI <info:goatsecx/hello>

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  3. Oh, great... by MouseR · · Score: 4, Funny

    With addresses like URI:, I'll spend more time on the phone trying to help my mother get where she needs to.

  4. It's Already patented. by jpvlsmv · · Score: 4, Funny

    Check out URI:

    --Joe

  5. Way cool?! by antic · · Score: 2, Funny
    Very neat. This basically sets up a parallel web of info spaces, where http/DNS space is just one of many, and anyone can register their namespace 'domain'. Way cool!!

    Err, things haven't been way cool!! since the Eighties...

    Isn't our industry trying to propel mankind into the future? Forwards is that way...

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  6. Hah! by el_flynn · · Score: 2, Funny
    URI info is belong to us.


    ahem.

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  7. Re:Verisign by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Just wait until someone like Verisign gets a hold of this. Utter chaos!

    Wait until Microsoft geta a hold of this. An "all" namespace!

  8. Re:Some further possibilities by Greedo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just a thought. I would hate to go looking for info:palm/model/P80900US and find 8 million links to people trying to get me to surf over to their porn site.

    No, that would be "info:palm/hairy"

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  9. Re:That's nothing by Guillermito · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow! I didn't know that!

    And it works with Mozilla !

    Try selecting this text (taken from the RFC) and pasting it on a browser window!

    data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODdhMAAwAPAAAAAAAP///y wA AAAAMAAw
    AAAC8IyPqcvt3wCcDkiLc7C0qwyGHhSWpjQu5yqmCYsapyuvUU lvONmOZtfzgFz
    ByTB10QgxOR0TqBQejhRNzOfkVJ+5YiUqrXF5Y5lKh/DeuNcP5 yLWGsEbtLiOSp
    a/TPg7JpJHxyendzWTBfX0cxOnKPjgBzi4diinWGdkF8kjdfny cQZXZeYGejmJl
    ZeGl9i2icVqaNVailT6F5iJ90m6mvuTS4OK05M0vDk0Q4XUtwv KOzrcd3iq9uis
    F81M1OIcR7lEewwcLp7tuNNkM3uNna3F2JQFo97Vriy/Xl4/f1 cf5VWzXyym7PH
    hhx4dbgYKAAA7

    Does it work with IE too? (sorry, no Windows box at hand)

  10. Genuinely reliable by AllenChristopher · · Score: 2, Funny

    You can rely on a rich new vein of controversial decisions on minor points of particular namespaces for Slashdot to cover. You can also rely on hundreds of us, batty-eyed from trying to find a bug, safely venting our anger on these design mistakes instead of throttling every co-worker listed before us in a module's revision history.

  11. Re:I'm really confused by Kazin · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hmm.... info:ebay/xxxx (whatever)
    or info:weather/06186 (hartford,ct)
    or info:ustel/800-867-5309 (jenny)
    or info:upc/3951080030 (sobe oolong)
    or info:mac/00:30:48:21:97:62
    or info:whois/slashdot.org

    Interesting.