# Re: The URN: wrapper and URLs...

Kevin Gamiel (kgamiel@vinca.cnidr.org)
Fri, 8 Oct 1993 15:54:40 -0400 (EDT)

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    Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1993 15:54:40 -0400 (EDT)

    From: Kevin Gamiel <kgamiel@vinca.cnidr.org>

    Subject: Re: The URN: wrapper and URLs...

    To: timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch

    In-Reply-To: <9310081659.AA02883@www3.cern.ch>

    Message-Id: <Pine.3.05.9310081538.N4528-a100000@vinca.cnidr.org>

On Fri, 8 Oct 1993, Tim Berners-Lee wrote:
>
> You can tell a URN because it begins with URN:
>
> URLs beigin with something else.
>
I think the point is the consistancy issue. _We_ know that an item is a
URL if it doesn't explicitly have "URL:", but if we are expecting other
people to understand UR*s, any ambiguity over what they are looking at
when they see a URL written on an envelope would be aleviated by including
the "tag".
Is it worth changing existing URL code? I would tend to vote yes (of
course I haven't written any URL code:-)

Kevin
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