- From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 10:17:31 -0400
- To: Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com>
- Cc: "Karen R. Sollins" <sollins@lcs.mit.edu>, conklin@info.cren.net, uri@bunyip.com, moore@cs.utk.edu
> To the extent that the WWW is an organic entity, death is a part of life. > > Phew, I've been wanting to say that since I read "URN's considered > harmful". I like that statement too :) > All this said, there *is* a role for universal names, and that is for > common objects: IETF documents, government documents, Aesop fables, VRML > teapots, etc. Let's focus on that, rather than having a goal of "keeping > links from breaking". Yes, this is a good statement. I'd say there are two goals: a) allow people to make persistent references to documents when this is appropriate b) for documents that aren't expected to be persistent, don't convey a false impression that they are. That is, a user ought to be able to know whether a link is likely to break before he puts it in his hotlist. Keith
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