Naming schemes on the Web

The World Wide Web uses a universal naming scheme, the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), to identify and address documents and other resources on the Net. This scheme is described in an Internet Request For Comments (RFC 1630), and encompasses a number of schemes already in general use and some which are still being developed. Two new schemes, the Uniform Resource Name (URN) and the Uniform Resource Citation (URC), are under discussion, which together will allow copies of resources to be distributed across the Web and facilitate retrieval of the closest or cheapest copy. These make use of the current scheme used on the Web, the Uniform Resource Locator (URL), which expresses the address of a resource and the method by which it can be accessed.

[ITCP] Spinning the Web by Andrew Ford
© 1995 International Thomson Publishing
© 2002 Andrew Ford and Ford & Mason Ltd
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