- From: Craig A. Finseth <fin@finseth.com>
- Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 10:30:54 -0600 (CST)
- To: gomer@lgerca.com
- Cc: tenkate@natlab.research.philips.com, www-tv@w3.org
... I'm not sure I understand your point about changing the term URL to URI. As I understand it, the key difference between a URI and a URL is that a URI is just an identifier of a resource, whereas a URL is a URI which actually allows the location of the resource to be determined. Perhaps I am not understanding this correctly. ... This is mostly correct. If it helps, think of URIs like, for example, a book's ISBN. A URL would be a pointer to a bookstore/library for obtaining a copy of the book. In theory, everything that we (i.e., the web) are doing with URLs should reallybe done with URIs. Unfortunately, URLs were "good enough" so that URIs never took off as they should have. Since we are talking about what is required to actually locate something, URL is the appropriate term here. Craig
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