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RE: URIs harmful

• To: 'Joshua Allen' <joshuaa@m...>, Tim Bray <tbray@t...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: URIs harmful
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 08:46:31 -0500

URIs seem to be the "zero" of web "THING" notation. 
They identify nothing, but without them, it is 
cumbersome to separate related things.

I do hope that all parties realize that even where 
a programmer can work with an abstraction, explaining 
it to the users costs more that it is worth.  I think 
I now comprehend the working meaning of "web of trust". 
The user asks the programmer why the http:// control 
is returning an error message the programmer tells 
them, "it doesn't matter. Trust me."

len

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