approachabe & frugal & composable

[solderpunk]

On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 10:21:43PM +0200, Petite Abeille wrote:
> 
> > On Jun 2, 2020, at 22:00, solderpunk <solderpunk at SDF.ORG> wrote:
> > 
> > Permitting *any* RFC-compliant URL is just way, way too open-ended and
> > defeats the point of so much careful efforts elsewhere in the protocol.
> 
> I suspect you are overthinking it :)
> 
> URIs are a good thing.
> 
> Thinks of them as structured tags.
> 
> Nothing more, nothing less.

That's something more than I want! :)

> They do not imply any behavior, but rather convey information. Structured information.

This is the problem.  They are way too general purpose.  They can convey
just about any kind of information.  Surely, there are contexts where
that's useful.  But sometimes you want to be able to convey information
of limited scope.  MIME media types are structured information (with a
main type, sub type, parameters), but structured information of a
certain type with a clear scope.  That's a good thing, from a protocol
design perspective.  It lets you reason about the consequences of what
you're specifying.  Arbitrary structured information does not.

Cheers,
Solderpunk