Re: [Uri-review] Initial inquiry into URI proposal (nym)

DataPacRat <datapacrat@gmail.com> Thu, 27 June 2013 18:43 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Uri-review] Initial inquiry into URI proposal (nym)
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On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org> wrote:
> On 27/06/2013 17:43, DataPacRat wrote:

If you don't object, I'm going to focus in on one particular point of
your reply. If that item can be cleared up, then the remainder seem
reasonably simple enough to; but if it can't, then there seems little
point in even trying to work out the rest.


>> This compares to writing up nym: as a URI of second-order referencing,

> You lost me there.  What is a "a URI of second-order referencing"?  If it's
> important, this is something that needs to be clarified, separately from all
> the issues of assertions and confidence.  It maybe that there's already some
> structure that achieves what you are trying to do, but without clear
> understanding, I can't tell.

Yet another metaphor: Back in the '80's, I played around a bit with
assembly programming of 8-bit CPUs. In general, a line of assembly
code consisted of an instruction and one or two pieces of data: "Jump
execution to this address", or "Add this number to that." This was
made much more versatile with what are called "addressing modes",
different ways of referencing a piece of data. There were complicated
variations, but most simply, there were three basic addressing modes.
There was direct addressing: "Jump to memory-entry 42"; there was
relative addressing: "Jump ahead 42 lines"; and there was indirect
addressing: "Jump to the address stored in memory-entry 42".

Most current URIs are based around direct addressing:
"http://www.twitter.com/DataPacRat" points to a particular resource.
Some current URIs allow for relative addressing:
"../different-subdirectory/file.gif". There seems to be a dearth of
ones that allow for indirect addressing: "the person described by
http://www.twitter.com/DataPacRat" or "the person shown in the picture
at ../different-subdirectory/file.gif".

What I'm trying to build with nym (one way or another, and with or
without other complications thrown in), is to have some sort of
structure that uses such indirect addressing: to take any given URI,
such as a webpage or mailto: address, and instead of referring
directly to whatever is pointed at by that URI, having the nym use
indirect addressing to be a reference to whatever that URI describes.
This seems to be within the general scope of URIs being references
that point to things, and to provide a novel form of doing so not
covered by an existing URI.


Does that provide any better clarity of this point?


Thank you for your time,
--
DataPacRat
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mistake it for a great deal." -- William A White