[Bug 8116] URNs are URIs but not URLs

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=8116


Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX




--- Comment #2 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>  2009-12-08 16:47:48 ---
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: The term "URL" is hyperlinked to a definition that includes urn:
URLs.

Anyway, some people are suggesting that urn: can be used for resources that can
be located (e.g. in the File API), so it's clear that that scheme _can_ be
locatable. So I don't think it's even wrong per the latest changes to the
meaning of URI/URN/IRI.

We (the standards community) really need to give up on this naming nonsense and
just go back to URL, which is what everyone else calls them.


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Received on Tuesday, 8 December 2009 16:47:57 UTC