- From: Bullard, Claude L \(Len\) <len.bullard@intergraph.com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 16:30:15 -0600
- To: <www-tag@w3.org>
Ah goody. The naming insurrection is back. When one of you names your child or grandchild or favorite pet http://www.rufus.org and puts their pix at the location with a note that says the kid really is an information resource on the web despite protests from their momma and grandmomma, I'll buy this. Otherwise, it looks like more "the web won dammit!" jitters. Ownership tests convictions. A URN is one guaranteed level of indirection from the web. They may not be doing this for persistence. They may be doing it for local control and independence from the web itself. Catalog servers are known tech. Bugs aren't a problem. It doesn't matter. Please lower your shields so we can power down our phasers. The crew wants to go on shore leave in western Auckland for The Big Day Out with the jafas and scarfies. Then we can fight about names that matter. len From: www-tag-request@w3.org [mailto:www-tag-request@w3.org] I already tried to dissuade them http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2005Feb/0057.html The fact of the matter is that the TAG is completely ineffectual at influencing the public after they have made up their minds and committed to a given design. It would be better for the TAG to write a finding that contradicts the long-held and foolish opinion in the IETF that made-up name registries like URN are somehow better than made-up name registries like DNS. At least then people can read it before they receive government funding for their own private URN space.
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