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RE: URIs == the Web was: Re: quarantining namespaces

• To: "John Cowan" <jcowan@r...>,"Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Subject: RE: URIs == the Web was: Re: quarantining namespaces
• From: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...>
• Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 19:03:43 -0700
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
• Thread-index: AcJCSHinhtiQZ+6+Q3++yteQ+v4nxQAJOm+g
• Thread-topic: URIs == the Web was: Re: quarantining namespaces

> > Sounds good to me, but what do we do with all those ugly URNs which
have
> > no locator-nature?
> 
> Proxy them, same as we do with news: URLs (which likewise have no
locator-
> nature).

Much of the time we proxy http: URLs as well, retrieve representations
from places that have nothing to do with the original location, and so
on.

URLs are simply URIs which happen to identify web pages.

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