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

On 28/07/11 02:25, Linyi Tian 01 wrote:
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> On 11-7-27 上午11:49, "Stephen Farrell" <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> Yesterday, I presented a draft [1] on a URI scheme for naming
>> stuff to the decade WG. There's interest in that there but
>> the idea behind this is really broader than just decade so
>> if there's interest here, doing this work in the appsarea WG
>> would I think be much better.
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>> The scheme is basically like HTTP URIs with one additional
>> thing, which is that it specifies a way to include a hash
>> function output in the name (and the related input, in case
>> you want to verify something later) which seems to me to be
>> a generally useful thing that various protocols could use
>> in various ways. Hence the idea of bringing it here.
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> I am wondering how this would be used. Will it be used together with HTTP
> URIs? Is there any real life use case how I can use this URI.

There are two ways in which this could be used I think, one is
where a protocol carries a URI and then the new scheme could be
used. For HTTP URLs one could use the hash-string construct
within the pathname I guess and that might be useful to document
as an option.

As I said the decade wg are thinking about this for their protocol
work. There are also many HTTP URLs that contain hashes, the extent
to which it'd be useful for someone to be able to know what was input
to the hash is hard to tell. I suspect it'd be useful sometimes
though.

S.

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>> So, comments appreciated,
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>> Thanks,
>> Stephen.
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>> [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-farrell-ni
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