On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Andre Merzky <andre@merzky.net> wrote:
Quoting [Sam Johnston] (Aug 14 2009):
Everything, by virtue of having a URL, has a globally unique identifier.
file://localhost/etc/passwd is a URL, but not globally unique (DNS is not globally unique). Same for file://10.0.0.1/etc/passwd
I guess this does not matter to us, but anyway...
That's an interesting point (and an interesting suggestion that OCCI might be used on file:// URLs/sockets). You're right though in that it doesn't matter for us - so long as it's unique for your system then all's well. Another caveat is that if we allow people to use relative URLs (as is the case for the web today) then those need not be unique at all. Relative URLs are useful for internal references in which case they greatly simplify copies and moves. Sam