Re: [hybi] [Uri-review] ws: and wss: schemes

hold on.. are we talking about using IPN ( http://www.ipnsig.org/ ) or
replacing it?

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Lisa Dusseault
<lisa.dusseault@gmail.com> wrote:
> Didn't Vernor Vinge sketch something like this out as part of the
> multi-solar-system-spanning network in the Zones of Thought Sci Fi
> series?  His future programmers needed mind-altering substances (well
> beyond caffeine, of course) to change any small part of the system and
> they still caused chaos with every change.
>
> Your addressing example provides additional concreteness and realism
> to the scenario :)
>
> Lisa
>
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 6:01 AM, Daniel R. Tobias<dan@tobias.name> wrote:
>> I wonder if the "HTTP Uber Alles" crowd, if they were active 20 years
>> ago, would be insisting that everything, including that newfangled
>> HTTP protocol, be expressed in the form of a Gopher address, or
>> perhaps FTP or Telnet, or maybe an e-mail address with the standard,
>> adopted by the owner of the address, that the subject line contain
>> the actual protocol intended to be used?
>>
>> I also wonder if, should their side win all its battles, 1000 years
>> from now all URIs in use will be at least 1000 characters long, of
>> which at least 800 of these characters will be fossilized deadwood of
>> obsolete protocols that are preserved as magic incantations to begin
>> a URI.  So they'll be something like:
>>
>> http://ipp.solarsystem.net/earth/galacticgateway.net/andromeda/tachyon
>> .protocol.net/ ...[snip]... /actualsite.actualgalaxy/path-in-site
>>
>> where "ipp.solarsystem.net", under "http", is the magic indicator of
>> the InterPlanetaryProtocol that became dominant in 2067, and was
>> followed by the actual address being reached by that protocol,
>> starting with its home planet, but then "galacticgateway.net" within
>> "earth" became the magic string to indicate that you are actually
>> using the InterGalacticProtocol which became dominant in 2152, and
>> similarly the "tachyon.protocol.net" signifies the Tachyon Protocol
>> that caught on around 2272.
>>
>> User agent identifiers for the browsers people use with their 31st
>> century protocols are similarly long and convoluted, beginning with
>> "Mozilla/5.0" and containing references to MSIE, Gecko, and various
>> other browser names and codenames that were trendy at some point or
>> other over the millennium.
>>
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