RE: now://example.org/car (was lack of consensus on httpRange-14)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy T. Fielding [mailto:fielding@apache.org] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 9:05 PM
> To: Champion, Mike
> Cc: 'www-tag@w3.org'
> 
> In my 8 years of experience as co-author of the HTTP and URI 
> standards and core developer for the Apache httpd Web server, 
> I have never once met a user of Web software who was confused 
> by the use of an http URI as an identifier.  

That's impressive. I meet people who are confused by HTTP URLs used as
identifiers on a weekly basis. Of course, working with XML I am on the
forefront of the grand experiment that is using HTTP URLs as
identifiers. 

PS: I wouldn't call the use of HTTP URLs on the WWW as utilizing them as
URIs so I'm wondering where you found users of "web software" who
encounter HTTP URLs which are used as identifiers. 

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