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> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > Jonathan Rochkind > Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 3:52 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] registering info: uris? > > But when did someone suggest that all identifiers must be resolvable? > When Andrew argued that: > > > Having unresolvable URIs is anti-Web since the Web is a hypertext > > system where links are required to make it useful. Exposing > > unresolvable links in content on the Web doesn't make the Web > > more useful. > > Okay, I guess he didn't actually SAY that you should never have non- > resolvable identifiers, but he rather strongly implied it, by using the > "anti-Web" epithet. You are correct that I didn't say that you should never have unresolvable identifiers and I wasn't implying that either. Though I was pointing out that sticking <a href="info:lccn/sh2009123456">Text</a> into the hypertext system where info URIs are unresolvable negates the effect of linking to it in the first place. Andy.