# Re: going too far? (longish diatribe)

Ed Krol (e-krol@uiuc.edu)
Wed, 30 Nov 1994 10:31:28 -0600

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    Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 10:31:28 -0600

    To: Terry Allen <terry@ora.com>

    From: e-krol@uiuc.edu (Ed Krol)

    Subject: Re: going too far?  (longish diatribe)

>But when you cite a document on the Net, the URL is portable in a
>way the call number is not, and requires no lookup to use. URNs
>and URN lookup will have to become as easy, cheap, and fast to use
>(perhaps because you can find a nearer, cheaper copy of what you
>want, perhaps because you tend to read stale documents) as URLs before
>it will be bad form to supply URLs---until then, as Roy(?) pointed
>out, they're useful info to supply to the reader.

Begging to differ. I would argue that the URL is not portable, just
like the the call number. There are a number of web URL's which
turn unusable because the CIX does some stupid splitting the
Internet in two, which means you have a reference to a document
which may exist in multiple places, but you can't find where they
are.

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