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Re: Should not URIs be resources and not actions

2007-07-02 15:54:32
Daniel Aleksandersen wrote:

"Uniform Resource Identifier schemas describe resources. Why then are some 
of the themost popular URIs schemas named as actions?

Because URIs without locators accessible through networks are
useless, all the popular URIs are URLs, which describes not
resources but how to "access" resources, which are actions.

Another example:
tel: is a resource, whilst callto: is an action. The second is supported by 
Skype (a popular calling software) but is not a standard, and the first is 
the standard but not supported by a single application.

Thanks to IETF attempts to dictate the Internet by making IANA
registration unreasonably difficult, people began to ignore
IANA.

                                                Masataka Ohta


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