Monday, September 04, 2006
JasonKolb.com: Reinventing the Internet, part three: Unlocking the potential of the URI
JasonKolb.com: Reinventing the Internet, part three: Unlocking the potential of the URI: "Now, GUID’s are great, I’ve been using them forever and they work well. However, why are we using a nonsensical series of letters and numbers to identify something? That doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me; there should be a way to uniquely identify something and make it possible to relay that address to another human without copying and pasting it into an email. Can't we also make it more useful than just identifying a resource?
About this point is where I had my “Aha” moment. I realized that there is another option for globally unique ID’s, that’s human readable, and that already has functionality baked in: namely, it allows you to locate what you're looking at, on the Internet. What I’m referring to, of course, is the URI. With a URI, you have the ability to uniquely identify something over all of the Internet and, this is key, actually GET TO IT and DO SOMETHING with it.
Think about that for a second. When it’s put into place, what that actually does is turn the entire Internet into one giant relational database."
About this point is where I had my “Aha” moment. I realized that there is another option for globally unique ID’s, that’s human readable, and that already has functionality baked in: namely, it allows you to locate what you're looking at, on the Internet. What I’m referring to, of course, is the URI. With a URI, you have the ability to uniquely identify something over all of the Internet and, this is key, actually GET TO IT and DO SOMETHING with it.
Think about that for a second. When it’s put into place, what that actually does is turn the entire Internet into one giant relational database."
0 Comments:
