- From: <weibel@oclc.org>
- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 07:14:25 -0400
- To: uri@bunyip.com
Patrik Falstrom's concern about reuse of URNs is, in my estimation, overblown. It may well be that ISBNs are imperfect or are imperfectly managed. Real Life. Deal with it. We should be so lucky as to end up with a system that serves us as well as ISBNs serve the book world. Persistence of names will not be assured by technology, anymore than the design of ISBNs assures their perfect application. Persistence of names will be a function of the stability of organizations of people and the incentives that shape the behavior of such organizations, and in a distributed world, there will emerge a variety service levels for assignment and resolution of URNs. The syntax of URNs should not impede the objective of persistence, but certainly it cannot assure it. stu
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