Re: [xml-dev] Off-topic: Re: [xml-dev] [OT] Re: [xml-dev] Lessonslearned

[John Cowan <johnwcowan@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Uche Ogbuji <uche@ogbuji.net> wrote:

It is certainly amazing how many information systems ignore the extraordinary richness and flexibility of personal names and addresses. Out of curiosity I went to see whether I'd covered this case in my old article on the topic, and found it's gone 404 (but still available via Wayback):

My more radical rant "Against Structured Names and Telephone Numbers" is at <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Of_rL8gMtHcfPaE5DfZ1xahrOtOaxFEHiQkcxvvR3lY/pub>.   I wrote this while I was at Google, but to no avail.

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