Re: now://example.org/car (was lack of consensus on httpRange-14) from Miles Sabin on 2002-10-10 (www-tag@w3.org from October 2002)

From: Miles Sabin <miles@milessabin.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 17:46:39 +0100
To: www-tag@w3.org
Message-Id: <200210101746.39080.miles@milessabin.com>

Paul Prescod wrote,
> I don't believe that universal URN registration schemes will be
> widely deployed. I've been wrong before, but even if I am, wouldn't
> it be funny if people flee away from HTTP to schemes that "do not
> imply dereference" and then sometime in the future they imply
> dereference.

They already _support_ dereference ... see DDDS. Whether or not they end 
up supporting an _expectation_ of dereferencability is an entirely 
different question. I'd hope not, but I've been wrong before too ;-)

Cheers,


Miles

Received on Thursday, 10 October 2002 12:47:14 UTC