RE: Should I use displayname?

• From: Randall Severy <severy@cyberteams.com>
• Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 12:05:20 -0500
• To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
• Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000122120516.00d96e20@mail.cyberteams.com>

At 09:49 AM 1/21/00 -0800, Jim Whitehead wrote:
>2) deprecate displayname, and only use URIs for display to the user, and
>concentrate on i18n support for URIs.

Jim,

      As I just mentioned in an earlier response, this assumes that the 
URIs represent something meaningful to the user.  If WebDAV is going to be 
used for anything other than simple file systems, I think this would be a 
seriously limiting solution.

Cheers.......    Randall


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