- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 01:09:24 PST
- To: uri@bunyip.com
Quoting myself out of context of a discussion (on web4lib): -------------------- Subject: Re: Ephemeral URLs (fwd) From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com> Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 19:34:41 PST The URN by itself does not supply the infrastructure to promote availability, any more than the ISBN number, by itself, provides the infrastructure of booksellers, libraries and other organizations that allow us to ensure books are available even if the publisher is no longer. The URN descriptions so far have not, as far as I can see, explained the motivation which will cause such a mechanism to arise and remain supported for the length of time we normally associate with the availability of physical scholarly artifacts. Larry Masinter (among other things, chair of the IETF URI working group).
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