Re: [occi-wg] Is OCCI the HTTP of Cloud Computing?

On May 12, 2009, at 2:36 AM, Sam Johnston wrote:

1) Are we also talking about using IRIs or URIs only ?

There was some discussion about this before with Ben Black - Atom IDs are not meant to be dereferenceable

That is not correct. Their primary purpose is to act as unique identifiers, but the normative text (properly) sets no expectation about whether they should be usable for dereference. Many people feel that dereferenceable identifiers are generally speaking of higher value and are predisposed to use "http:" everywhere. This is one reason it's usually wrong to micromanage users' choice of URI schemes. -Tim