RE: The case against URNs

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Prescod [mailto:paul@prescod.net]
> Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 8:39 PM
> To: Champion, Mike; www-tag@w3.org
> Subject: Re: The case against URNs
> 
> Roy claims somewhat pursasively that the Web as it exists today DOES 
> allow addressing of abstract resources. Let's put it this 
> way, would you 
> think it odd if you saw the following markup:
> 
> <p>The <a href="http://www.w3.org">W3C</a> is an important <a 
> href="http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=organization&r=67">or
> ganization</a> 
> and <a href="http://www.google.com">Google</a> is an 
> important service. 
> </p>

I wouldn't, but I'm not a machine :-) A machine that doesn't understand the
English meaning of the sentence can't know if it refers to the W3C itself or
the W3C website. 

[Humming "Deja Vu"  ....]
 

Received on Sunday, 6 October 2002 21:22:10 UTC