- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:04:49 -0800
- To: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Cc: uri@w3.org
>> No, it has has an arbitrarily different syntax that serves the same >> purpose as the authority component in the generic syntax. The urn >> scheme has one as well -- that has proven to be a bad idea. > > Can you elaborate on this latter point? My objection to info: has > been precisely that it should be split up into a number of urn: > schemes. Yes, that was my objection as well. The different authority syntax for urn prevented its deployment for many years, but I think that has finally been resolved. URNs would have been deployed in 1994, at least in terms of WWW client and proxy behavior, were it not for a disagreement over the syntax. New schemes should learn from that lesson and try to be uniform whenever possible, ....Roy
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