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Re: How did "public identifier" get its name...

• To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Subject: Re: How did "public identifier" get its name...
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:31:22 -0400
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Bullard, Claude L (Len) scripsit:

> The problem of the Universal Identifier concept is that 
> it assumes the web is the universe and vice versa.  It 
> builds unreliability into the system.  Definitions that 
> include the term 'universal information space' are silly.

IMHO it would have been better to decree that in XML the public id,
rather than the system id, must be a URI.

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