Mikael Tillenius scripsit:
> (Btw doesn't the authority field contain a hostname which either should
> be ignored or make us dependent on a central registry?)
It's scheme-dependent. In the commonly used schemes, the authority
part is a hostname, but RFC 3986 says:
In many cases, the host syntax is used only for the sake
of reusing the existing registration process created and deployed for
DNS, thus obtaining a globally unique name without the cost of
deploying another registry. However, such use comes with its own
costs: domain name ownership may change over time for reasons not
anticipated by the URI producer. In other cases, the data within the
host component identifies a registered name that has nothing to do
with an Internet host. We use the name "host" for the ABNF rule
because that is its most common purpose, not its only purpose.
--
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Sound change operates regularly to produce irregularities;
analogy operates irregularly to produce regularities.
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Received on Thu Jun 28 2007 - 15:50:06 UTC