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michael.h.kay@ntlworld.com (Michael Kay) writes:
>I think the name was chosen because the authors of the spec had it in
>mind that people would use them to hold SGML public identifiers, which
>are a previous and only partially successful attempt at doing URIs,
>i.e. globally unique names for resources.
Heh. As "globally unique names for resources" go, it's probably wise to
count URIs as an "only partially successful attempt." I'm not if that's
a failure of URIs specifically or the nature of the project, though.
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