[x3d-public] URL vs. URN vs. URI (RFC 3986, RFC 8820)

John Carlson yottzumm at gmail.com
Sun Oct 3 00:24:33 PDT 2021


I’m all for dropping url (you are el) and replacing them with uri.   Url
sounds like you’re proclaiming a god (el).   I believe JSON Schema has
already made the move to uri.

On Sun, Oct 3, 2021 at 2:12 AM Christoph Valentin <christoph.valentin at gmx.at>
wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Accidentally, I came along the discussion in chapter 1.1.3 of RFC 3986.
>
> Now I'm wondering, if X3D/VRML shouldn't use URIs rather than URLs in most
> of the "url" fields.
>
> E.g. If I want to refer to a common texture like the "American flag", than
> a URN might be more adequate than a URL.
>
> Or, if I want to output a video conference to a movie texture, then a SIP
> URI might be more adequate than a URL.
>
> Discussion welcome.
>
> Christoph
>
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