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   Re: [xml-dev] URIs == the Web was: Re: [xml-dev] quarantining namespaces

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Simon St. Laurent wrote:

> Jonathan Borden writes:
> > Many folks complain that this view conflates "name" and 
> > "locator", yet indeed this so-called conflation is exactly what makes 
> > the Web interesting, and why it uniquely does what it does.
> > 
> > This is the Web's most defining characteristic(IMNSHO).
> 
> Sounds good to me, but what do we do with all those ugly URNs which have
> no locator-nature?
> 
> DDDDS?

If DDDDS takes off, it would breath life into URNs. In the meantime I haven't found them all that useful, nor interesting. I mean, your name is certainly "Simon St. Laurent", and calling you urn:fubar:simonstl doesn't really do much for me unless I have some software that can do something interesting with that string. Software that implemented DDDDS _would_ allow me to do something interesting, but I fear that such software will cost me $$ in some way shape or form. I at least know what my costs are with the current HTTP Web ... cable modem, DNS entries, ISPs etc. and I am prepared to deal with that. I really don't want no stinkin' DDDDS if Michael Mealing's boss wants to charge me $$$ for it (no offense to Michael but let's get serious :-))

Jonathan




 

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