> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Jonathan Rochkind
> Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 12:16 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] registering info: uris?
>
> Some hints of the existing argument in other forums can be found in
> this
> post by Stu Weibel, and the other posts it links to.
>
> http://weibel-lines.typepad.com/weibelines/2006/08/uncoupling_iden.html
Unfortunately, Stu is an author of the info URI specification and the
he makes the same arguments that they made for the justification of
the info URI RFC which has been debunked by the W3C:
<http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/URNsAndRegistries-50>
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.
Andy.
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