- From: Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 11:27:57 -0400
- To: www-tag@w3.org
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/ Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> was heard to say:
| Yes and yes, but I believe this might be difficult to achieve. The
| TAG seems to be quite broadly unenthusiastic about URNs but they have
| enthusiastic partisans in the community.
Yeah. And on the TAG, too, even if in distinct minority :-)
|> Q2: Your text "URNs are not effectively usable" might lead me to believe
|> that there might be an effort ongoing to standardize how to retrieve
|> resources using URNs. Do you know of such an effort?
|
| Yes, there are such efforts in the IETF; the acronym doesn't spring to
| mind, but that doesn't matter, because I'm sure that several other
| people will spring forward to explain why URNs are in fact retrievable
| and that TimBL and I are blowing smoke when we claim they're not. I
| accept that mechanisms in principle exist to dereference URNs, it's
| just that I've never used a computer where such software was
| installed, so it's clearly far from ubiquitous.
Others have made those points, so I won't. There's also "OASIS
Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI) TC"[1] but I haven't looked at
it.
It will come as no surprise to Tim that I second Larry's observation:
In the long run, I think it's easier to make a URNs retrievable than
it is to make HTTP URLs permanent, and that the W3C should stop
trying to make an anti-URN policy.
Be seeing you,
norm
[1] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xri/
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XML Standards Architect | the deepest despair, but possibilities which
Web Tech. and Standards | we have failed to realize.--Robert Mallet
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