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Re: [apps-discuss] proposing draft-farrell-ni as an appsarea wg item

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Fri, 29 July 2011 00:34 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] proposing draft-farrell-ni as an appsarea wg item
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On 7/28/11 7:05 PM, Stephen Farrell wrote:
> 
> 
> On 28/07/11 21:51, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> 
>>
>> I don't see the need for an authority component, but maybe I'm missing
>> something in the use cases.
> 
> Within the information centric kind of stuff we do (as research, not
> ready for IETF prime time by any means) we have a need for a DNS or
> DNS-like authority. We also have use-cases for no authority part at
> all in that same space.
> 
> I basically just allowed the hash-string for authority since it seemed
> like fun:-) That is, I have no concrete use case for that now.

It would be good to get an idea of the use cases people have. I've heard
about various folks who might want a hash URI scheme, but I haven't
heard about specific use cases they've got.

Peter

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