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RE: [metaDataInURI-31] New draft of "The Use of Metadata in URIs"

From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 17:44:06 -0500
To: "Booth, David (HP Software - Boston)" <dbooth@hp.com>
Cc: www-tag@w3.org
Message-ID: <OF3738E336.954E4C99-ON8525723A.007C92AC-8525723A.007CDA99@lotus.com>

David Booth wrote:

> Nice work,

Thank you.

> but I wonder if this "Good practice" note is really adding
> much:
> [[
> Good Practice: Web sites SHOULD use hyperlinks and URI metadata in a
> manner that minimizes confusion for users, and SHOULD NOT misleadingly
> apply common conventions for encoding type information into filenames
> and URIs.
> ]]
> 
> Isn't it rather like saying Web sites SHOULD be designed well and SHOULD
> NOT do malicious things?  It seems like kind of generic advice.

I agree.  In the draft to be published shortly, you will find that the 
whole section has (again) been significantly reworked, and the good 
practice note you quote above has been removed. 

> David Booth, Ph.D.
> HP Software
> dbooth@hp.com
> Phone: +1 617 629 8881

Thanks for taking the trouble to comment!

Noah

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