- From: Sean B. Palmer <sean@mysterylights.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 18:14:21 +0100
- To: "William Loughborough" <love26@gorge.net>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org>
> I bet more people say the incorrect "universal" than > the correct "uniform". I still say it sometimes. According to "Weaving the Web", TimBL wanted to use "Universal", but the IETF folk argued that this was ridiculous, arguing "how can any resource identifier/indicator be universal? Call it uniform". Of course, that's only one side of the story - I'll be the IETF people have their reasons, and one day maybe I'll track them down. Whatever the case, "Universal" is better than "Uniform", and "Repair" is probably better than "Report"... but I don't really care; URIs are still URIs, and EARL is still EARL. The Web would still be working tomorrow if all the kings/queens on earth decreed that it is to be called "The Information Mine" or whatever. This is all just one big step towards the Pedantic Web, IMO. > Let's call the whole thing off? Never! -- Kindest Regards, Sean B. Palmer @prefix : <http://webns.net/roughterms/> . :Sean :hasHomepage <http://purl.org/net/sbp/> .
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