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• Subject: RE: How did "public identifier" get its name...
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:26:20 -0400
• In-reply-to: <008701c34d62$04e8b840$6401a8c0@pcukmka>

michael.h.kay@n... (Michael Kay) writes:
>I think the name was chosen because the authors of the spec had it in
>mind that people would use them to hold SGML public identifiers, which
>are a previous and only partially successful attempt at doing URIs,
>i.e. globally unique names for resources.

Heh.  As "globally unique names for resources" go, it's probably wise to
count URIs as an "only partially successful attempt."  I'm not if that's
a failure of URIs specifically or the nature of the project, though.



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