> 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.