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Very interesting.

The only odd part is that the modules (drivers) themselves are not referenced by URL, but only by a simple word (in the example "port_io").

Also, I wonder how we could combine drivers. For example, (theoretically) instead of using "https" as driver, we could compose it as "HTTP over TLS over TCP", and change any of those subcomponents as desired. With URLs this might become clumsy.



It depends how you want to express the hierarchy - URLs say "this is my transport system, and this is my address".

But you could propose doing: tcp+tls+http://www.some.url/?options=here

if you were okay with that. The problem creeps in when that tls fragment needs options and a path of it's own.


Hurd translators can do that easily.




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