Re: [decade] FW: Last Call: <draft-farrell-decade-ni-07.txt> (Naming Things with Hashes) to Proposed Standard

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Wed, 13 June 2012 09:47 UTC

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Subject: Re: [decade] FW: Last Call: <draft-farrell-decade-ni-07.txt> (Naming Things with Hashes) to Proposed Standard
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On 06/13/2012 07:28 AM, "Martin J. Dürst" wrote:
> Hello Stephen,
> 
> On 2012/06/12 20:08, Stephen Farrell wrote:
>>
>> So would it work to add this:
>>
>> "
>>     Note that relative ni URIs can occur, for example as shown in
>>     Figure 5.  In such cases, user agents MUST construct the absolute URI
>>     as they would in the case of an HTTP URL, that is, in the example
>>     shown the absolute URI for "this third document" would be
>>     "ni://example.com/sha-256-128;...".
> 
> This looks fine, except that it contains a MUST when it can just refer
> to RFC 3986. So I would suggest the following text:
> 
>    Note that relative ni URIs can occur. In such cases, the algorithm
>    in Section 5 of RFC 3986 applies. As an example, in Figure 5, the
>    absolute URI for "this third document" is
>    "ni://example.com/sha-256-128;...".

works for me

> 
> 
> 
>>       <html>
>>        <head>
>>          <title>ni: relative URI test</title>
>>          <base href="ni://example.com">
>>        </head>
>>
>>        <body>
>>          <p>Please check<a href="sha-256;f4OxZX...">this document</a>.
>>            And<a href="sha-256;UyaQV...">this other document</a>.
>>            And<a href="sha-256-128;...">this third document</a>.
>>          </p>
>>        </body>
>>       </html>
>>
>>                  Figure 5: Example HTML with relative ni URI
>>
>> "
>>
>> Better suggestions welcome.
>> Ta,
> 
> I tried to look "Ta" up on the Web, but there were just too many
> potential explanations. What are you using it for?

Ta == Thanks :-)

Ta,
S.


> 
> 
> Regards,   Martin.
> 
>> S.
> 
>