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Re: quarantining namespaces

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• Subject: Re: quarantining namespaces
• From: Joe English <jenglish@f...>
• Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 08:38:25 -0700
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Jonathan Borden wrote:

> Well, URIs are an essential part of the Web as we know it, and the Web as pra
> cticed. You can call them 'rot' but rid yourselves of URIs and you've rid you
> rself of the Web as we know it today, for better or worse.

UR*L*s are essential to the Web; URIs are not.  I have yet to 
encounter a Web-based service that relies on the ability to 
Identify resources; all the useful ones just need to Locate them.
If we could throw out the bathwater and keep the baby, things 
would work just as smoothly as before.


--Joe English

  jenglish@f...

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