- From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
- Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 09:56:11 -0700
- To: Miles Sabin <miles@milessabin.com>
- CC: www-tag@w3.org
Miles Sabin wrote: > 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. They don't support dereference on any computer I have access to, nor those of most of my customers. I expect that to be the situation into the future. > ... Whether or not they end > up supporting an _expectation_ of dereferencability is an entirely > different question. If dereferencing them becomes easy and common, then people will expect them to be dereferencable. Otherwise not. Paul Prescod
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