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> 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.