An addressing syntax is required which will be able to encompass existing physical address spaces and be extendible to any future protocols. This requires that it contain an identifier for the protocol in use. The format of the rest of the address will necessarily depend to a certain extent on the protocol.
Predictor: Berners-Lee, Tim
Prediction, in context:The following is an excerpt from an Internet Draft (from the working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force) written by Tim Berners-Lee, contained in a memo written on January 1, 1994. This excerpt discusses the “expandability” of naming schemes and uniform resource locator addresses (URL): ”There will necessarily be a phase during which lasting names will become more common, as the deployment of directory services increases to the point where every user has direct or indirect access to one. Even then, however, one can envisage more than one competing directory system, and cases in which physical names are still required. A directory service takes a lasting name and reduces it to a physical address (or set of addresses) which, though less useful for lasting reference, is the only way to actually retrieve the object. An addressing syntax is required which will be able to encompass existing physical address spaces and be extendible to any future protocols. This requires that it contain an identifier for the protocol in use. The format of the rest of the address will necessarily depend to a certain extent on the protocol.”
Biography:Tim Berners-Lee of CERN first released his revolutionary World-Wide Web for initial use in 1991 and with it shared his invention HTML (hypertext mark-up language). He later served as director of W3 Consortium, an open forum of companies and organizations whose goal was to find ways to help the Web reach its full potential. (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Protocols
Name of publication: www.w3.org
Title, headline, chapter name: A Unifying Syntax for the Expression of Names and Addresses of Objects on the Network
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.w3.org/History/1995/WWW/Paper/JUNK.TXT
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