[r6rs-discuss] Rationale issues

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:26:14 +0200

Hi,

Thomas Lord <lord at emf.net> writes:

> That is a problem with URLs, not URIs. All people, no authority
> required, are
> free to assemble in communities defined by an agreement on the meaning of
> URI method field values. Within a given agreed upon method, naming
> authorities
> may be defined fairly arbitrarily -- they are not limited to domain
> names, etc.

Without having to resort to any authority, Guile users have been able to
choose module names that do not conflict with each other. Same for Snow
users, Perl users, Python users, etc.

I don't think having an authority responsible for name assignment is
practical, nor even necessary, and I don't think "URIs" (i.e., basically
strings that honor a particular syntax) buy us anything.

Thanks,
Ludovic.
Received on Wed Jun 27 2007 - 07:26:14 UTC