# Re: Globalizing URIs

Jon Knight (J.P.Knight@lut.ac.uk)
Sat, 12 Aug 1995 21:28:15 +0100 (BST)

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    Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 21:28:15 +0100 (BST)

    From: Jon Knight <J.P.Knight@lut.ac.uk>

    To: Roy Fielding <fielding@beach.w3.org>

    Subject: Re: Globalizing URIs

    In-Reply-To: <199508112318.TAA18317@beach.w3.org>

    Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950812211212.20210c-100000@weeble.lut.ac.uk>

On Fri, 11 Aug 1995, Roy Fielding wrote:
> I'd just like to point out that most of this discussion is ignoring
> the fact that the transcribability of URLs is one of the main reasons
> the WWW has been successful in building an information base.
>
> http://www.w3.org/People/Fielding
>
> ismn:893505109550819789356548054910

If that number included check digits and/or error correcting digits then
the latter might actually aid transcribability (so would splitting it up
into smaller sections with punctuation characters such as
ismn:8935.0510.9550.8197.8935.6548.0549.10).

If I had one pound for every mis-printed URL I've come across or person
coming to ask me how to access a mis-transcribed URL, I'd be a rich man by
now. I don't think that current URLs are perfect when it comes to
transcribability, do you?

> OTOH, anyone who thinks people will stop using URLs just because a URN
> exists has failed to study the users of this technology.

I don't think that anyone in their right mind expects URL usage to cease
when URNs are finally standardised and widely deployed. URLs are here to
stay, period. Personally I would only really expect URNs to be used for
resources that are likely to have a long ``shelf-life''.

Jon

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