- From: Beton, Richard <richard.beton@roke.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 13:29:19 +0100
- To: www-validator@w3.org
Philip TAYLOR wrote:
> I am sure that these responses are very amusing, to the cognoscenti
> at least, but is no-one prepared to offer a simple factual
> explanation as to why the universally-understood and used URL
> was apparently ditched in favour of its bastard offspring URI ?
Does this help?
http://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/uri-spec.html
"A Universal Resource Identifier (URI) is a member of this universal set
of names in registered name spaces and addresses referring to registered
protocols or name spaces.
A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) ... is a form of URI which expresses
an address which maps onto an access algorithm using network protocols."
in pigeon summary, URI = URL + URN
See also:
http://www.w3.org/Addressing/
http://www.w3.org/TR/uri-clarification/
Rick :-)
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