- From: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:37:50 -0700
- To: "Michael Mealling" <michael@neonym.net>
- Cc: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>, "Jonathan Borden" <jonathan@openhealth.org>, "Bill de hOra" <dehora@eircom.net>, "Tim Berners-Lee" <timbl@w3.org>, <www-tag@w3.org>
> I'd be much happier with "URIs *are* the letters of the web". We can > write stuff all day long. Now we just have to figure out how to string > those letters together and agree on what those arrangements mean. > Do letters by themselves have much meaning? No. Its the words > that are important. But you can't spell a word without a letter... Too late for that. URIs already identify things; letters don't. And I can spell all sorts of words without letters -- so long as I use Chinese. You can't spell a URI without letters, but that's just an artifact of the Western-European cultural bias of the original web architecture.
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