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- Universal Document Identifiers UDI BOF
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- Time: Monday 13th July 1992 1:30 pm
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- Chair: Tim Berners-Lee
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- Background document: file://info.cern.ch/pub/www/doc/udi2.ps
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- Aim: To define some clear decisions to be made by a small WG to be
- formed. A skeleton charter for such a working group is appended,
- and may be discussed at the BOF. The overall aim is to standardize
- on one unifying printable representation for names and addresses of
- retrievable objects in existing and future name and address spaces.
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- Those who have not been following the discussion are asked to read the
- background document first. An archive of some of the discussion is
- available as file://info.cern.ch/pub/www/doc/udi/discussion.mbox .
- The BOF will avoid philosophy and a discussion of the differences
- between names and addresses, or the relative merits of different naming
- schemes, or the combination of names in different spaces recommended to
- refer to an object. If new schemes are required, a separate effort
- may be forked off to create them.
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- Provisional Charter:
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- To define a printable string syntax to the allow
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- 1. The expression of the address on the network of any
- accesable object using existing information retrieval protocols;
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- 2. The expression of the name of any object held in
- a directory system or unique naming space on the network;
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- 3. The distinction to be made easily in the syntax
- between such protocols and directories and name spaces;
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- 4. New protocols, directories and naming schemes to be included as
- and when they are developed.
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- The aim of the working group is to further the exchange of information
- between people and applications using the network by allowing an
- unambiguous reference to be cited to accessible units of information.
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- The working group will build on experience with existing information retrieval
- protocols and will not invent new protocols or name spaces. The working
- group will note the properties of established name and address spaces.
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- Deliverable:
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- A Document describing:
- Overall syntax, character sets and limitations
- Formats for addresses of:-
- FTP files and directories
- WAIS documents and databases
- HTTP objects
- NNTP newsgroups and articles
- Gopher items.
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- Standards track.
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- B Appendices to document A for x500 distinguished name spaces
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- C Appendices to document A for selected established
- unique identifier name spaces. (possible separate parallel
- working group).
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- Milestones:
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- Define at BOF.
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