- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:58:22 -0800
- To: "'W3C TAG'" <www-tag@w3.org>
- Cc: "'Michael Mealling'" <michael@neonym.net>, Didier Martin <martind@netfolder.com>, colin.wallis@ssc.govt.nz, ferry.hendrikx@ssc.govt.nz
On Feb 14, 2005, at 11:16 AM, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > I did not intend it to be scientific. There were many naming systems > that predated the Web and many that have been defined since the Web, > but none of them have succeeded beyond the scope of a limited group > of people who either were not given a choice or who whose grant > money was tied to their use. Noah has reminded me (off-list) that there is at least one other example that has been successful, namely UUIDs/GUIDs. There are definite advantages to completely automated, decentralized naming systems (e.g., DCE to COM to urn:uuid:) that have no equivalent in hierarchical URLs, although the urn: prefix does not provide any value in this case. ....Roy
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