- From: David Orchard <dorchard@bea.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 20:31:37 -0700
- To: "'Jonathan Borden'" <jonathan@openhealth.org>, "'Dare Obasanjo'" <dareo@microsoft.com>
- Cc: <www-tag@w3.org>
I observe that for years people using the web called the http://... thingy a URL. And then to ensure the sameness of syntax between URNs and URLs, the use of URIs was done. Seems like urn:... thingies are urns, and everything else is a locator. As Roy said in ‘94 [1], URIs are just a syntax that combines URLs and URNs particularly for comparison purposes. There didn’t seem to be any notion at the time of combination that Identity notions manifested themselves merely by having a common syntax. Cheers, Dave [1] http://www.acl.lanl.gov/URI/archive/uri-94q4.messages/0028.html > No. These folks use the Web, they don't care what you call > the thingie that > starts with "http://..." That's my point, perhaps we are > thinking too hard > about this distinction. I have given some reasonable (I > think) examples > where a URI/URL starting with "http" can be used in casual > conversation to > mean different things, depending on the context. No surprise, > that's how > words work, and how words have worked for a very long time, certainly > predating computers and the web. None of these issues seem at all new. >
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