- From: Jon Knight <J.P.Knight@lut.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 21:28:15 +0100 (BST)
- To: Roy Fielding <fielding@beach.w3.org>
- Cc: uri@bunyip.com
On Fri, 11 Aug 1995, Roy Fielding wrote: > I'd just like to point out that most of this discussion is ignoring > the fact that the transcribability of URLs is one of the main reasons > the WWW has been successful in building an information base. > > http://www.w3.org/People/Fielding > > ismn:893505109550819789356548054910 If that number included check digits and/or error correcting digits then the latter might actually aid transcribability (so would splitting it up into smaller sections with punctuation characters such as ismn:8935.0510.9550.8197.8935.6548.0549.10). If I had one pound for every mis-printed URL I've come across or person coming to ask me how to access a mis-transcribed URL, I'd be a rich man by now. I don't think that current URLs are perfect when it comes to transcribability, do you? > OTOH, anyone who thinks people will stop using URLs just because a URN > exists has failed to study the users of this technology. I don't think that anyone in their right mind expects URL usage to cease when URNs are finally standardised and widely deployed. URLs are here to stay, period. Personally I would only really expect URNs to be used for resources that are likely to have a long ``shelf-life''. Jon -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Jon Knight, Researcher, Sysop and General Dogsbody, Department of Computer Studies, Loughborough University of Technology, Leics., ENGLAND. LE11 3TU. *** Nothing looks so like a man of sense as a fool who holds his tongue ***
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