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Dare Obasanjo wrote:
> XML namespaces is the only place I've seen URIs used significantly can you provide any others? Anyway, I decided to give one more shot at explaining my dislike of the whole URIs/URLs mess before bowing out. Here are some analogies 
>  
> URN: Microsoft  
> URL: One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052 
> URI:  Either of the above. 
> Resource: The Microsoft Corporation
>  
> The above is an illustration of why I like URLs and like URNs but despise URIs. 

Er by URL do you mean HTTP URI or are you prepared to grant news: and 
mid: and some other schemes?

I agree on liking URLs.  With every year that passes I become less 
convinced that URNs are a good idea.  John Cowan provided a bunch of 
examples on this list earlier (ISBNs, Usenet, etc) of places where the 
identifying string does not, unlike http, imply a retrieval mechanism 
but is still useful.

Personally, all the URIs I care about are HTTP URLs.  Calling a URL a 
URI has never caused me a problem. -Tim





 

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