Re: Sticking another fork in the URI issue

Tim Bray wrote:
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>...
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> So I grant that the angst exists - but I claim that it exists nowhere in 
> the real world with the intensity observed among the contributors to 
> xml-dev and www-tag.  

I agree with everythign you say. But I think it is only fair to 
understand WHY the angst level is so high on those two lists. We are the 
people who are tasked with explaining this stuff to the rest of the 
world. It is demonstrably confusing. It is perfectly reasonable for a 
teacher to try to reduce the confusion of a student by simplifying a 
model: "Think of light as a wave."

That all said, there comes a time where it is no longer useful to ignore 
the fact that light is also like a particle. We've reached that point. 
HTTP URIs are both identifiers and locators and the fact that they are 
both does not hurt their use as the other. Except insofar as it confuses 
people. And the solution is education, not architectural change.

  Paul Prescod

Received on Friday, 11 October 2002 19:29:19 UTC