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That was neat! Next, maybe you could do ones on URNs. They are much rarer in the wild, compared to URLs, but you can find them in torrent magnet files, isbn: nu
by kortex 6y ago
That was neat! Next, maybe you could do ones on URNs. They are much rarer in the wild, compared to URLs, but you can find them in torrent magnet files, isbn: numbers, etc.
They are a powerful concept - give a resource a universal name, regardless of how you locate it. I'm surprised this hasn't taken off as a way to universally point to assets (outside bittorrent), but I guess the challenge there is the resolver, and the lack of a pressing need when URLs do most of what you want.
I just want a way to refer to a file that might be local, http, s3, what-have-you, and always refer to it with the same string, regardless of where it's located.
There's XRIs, but there's, erm, some drama going on there.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Resource_Identifier https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Resource_Identifi...