- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 08:11:18 PDT
- To: peterd@bunyip.com
- Cc: uri@bunyip.com
>>>>> On Fri, 23 Jun 1995 08:06:44 -0700, peterd@bunyip.com said: > Larry Masinter wrote: > | > |>The more I think about it, the more convinced I am that if URNs are to be as > |>persistent as possible, that they should be numeric (or alphanumeric codes > |>like the LoC numbers or British/Canadian postal code system). If you use > |>human-readable names like "proper" or "ibm" people will get emotional and/or > |>possessive about them, making it much harder to prevent the URNs containing > |>them from changing over time. but actually, I didn't write that, even though I think there is a serious issue of longevity of undated human-readable names.
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