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Re: quarantining namespaces

• To: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
• Subject: Re: quarantining namespaces
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 11:59:06 -0400
• Cc: Joe English <jenglish@f...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <3D57D919.5616571@p...>

Paul Prescod wrote:
> When you ask Google for a cached page, it is not looking up the page
> (that's the whole point). It is using the URI as an identifier and
> checking what information it has associated with that identifier.

But that re-use is tightly bound to the original locating power of
retrieving documents using HTTP URLs.  Using Google to look up
information on URNs isn't nearly as useful unless someone's built a
URL-based description.

In short, while using URLs as identifiers may be a good tactic in some
situations, taking that use as grounds to claim that the Web is built on
URIs rather than URLs is a grotesque overreach.

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets
Errors, errors, all fall down!
http://simonstl.com

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