Principles re: Universal Addressing
- Use URIs
- All important resources SHOULD be identified by a
URI.
- URI ambiguity
- Ambiguity in the relationship between URIs and
resources is harmful for
humans and machines.
- Resource descriptions
- Owners of important resources (for example, Internet
protocol
parameters) SHOULD make available representations that describe the nature
and purpose of those resources.
- Safe retrieval
- Agents do not incur obligations by retrieving a
representation.
- New URI schemes:
- Authors of specifications SHOULD avoid introducing new
URI schemes when
existing schemes can be used to meet the goals of the specifications.
- Unregistered URI schemes
- Unregistered URI schemes MUST NOT be used on the
public Internet for
general purpose applications.
- Open issue: IRIs
- When to use, when to convert, how to compare