Re: Policy URL -> Policy URI

Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> Tue, 08 February 2005 10:33 UTC

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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Jon Callas <jon@callas.org>
Cc: Rick van Rein <rick@openfortress.nl>, ietf-openpgp@imc.org
Subject: Re: Policy URL -> Policy URI
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* Jon Callas:

> Okay, I see what you're saying, but is it necessary?
>
> A long time ago, the keyserver URL said URI and we changed it for 
> reasons that I can't remember.

Back then, the URI *identified* a resource, but this doesn't make much
sense in the OpenPGP context (were fingerprints are used to identify
keys).  The keyserver location is just that, a location.

The URI terminology has changed since then.