- From: Ron Daniel, Jr. <rdaniel@lanl.gov>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 08:54:29 -0600
- To: Jon Knight <jon@net.lut.ac.uk>
- Cc: uri@bunyip.com
At 11:20 AM 4/16/97 +0100, Jon Knight wrote: >IMHO the push for I18N should be in Uniform >Resource *Names*, not URLs, so that the broken "put meaning in an address" >paradigm isn't perpetuated even further than it currently is. The URN-WG has a particular I18N position, but that is to allow for the representation of things like Japanese bank account identifiers. We are NOT trying to use I18N features in order to provide the short, human-friendly, identifiers that many people would like to see. Regards, Ron Daniel Jr. voice:+1 505 665 0597 Advanced Computing Lab fax:+1 505 665 4939 MS B287 email:rdaniel@lanl.gov Los Alamos National Lab http://www.acl.lanl.gov/~rdaniel Los Alamos, NM, USA, 87545
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