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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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