The UOR-Universal Object Reference Framework

[rayiner]

Why am I getting CORBA PTSD reading this?

[zvikara]

For those who didn't get the reference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interoperable_Object_Referen...

[ChrisMarshallNY]

Yup.

The more things change, the more they stay the same…

[tgv]

But with calls over the internet! I propose a new acronym: Serverless CORBa with Universal Transport over Unified Streams, aka SCORBUTUS.

[scrame]

Is that what that feeling in the back of my head was?

[vacwbcoc]

It looks like there is more info in their docs: https://universalreference.io/docs/faq/

[naasking]

This was illuminating:

> Universal Object Reference (UOR) provides a single format to publish, retrieve, and interact with any content. By “any content” we mean literally anything.

Then comes this:

> UOR has 4 principles that enable truly universal support for any and all content. Those are: > > 1. All content is formatted into a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG)

So then UOR can't describe a cyclic graph? Doesn't sound like "anything" to me. It sounds like you might have to represent cyclic data using embedded runtime objects.

[nisa]

Is this related to research in this area or something different?

https://inqlab.net/projects/dmc/

https://openengiadina.net/papers/eris.html

https://openengiadina.net/papers/content-addressable-rdf.htm...

[vivegi]

For the Web, REST + HATEOAS architectural constraint is already a universal object reference framework.

[naasking]

I was going to say, don't we already have URLs and URIs?

[fulafel]

In the universal runtime picture, it seems to be drawn as a browser feature, is that right?

[rurban]

Security nightmares all over. There is a good reason why not all primitives or arrays or hashes are not objects, esp. over the wire.