# Internet Draft on URNs

Marc Andreessen (marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
Sun, 16 May 93 01:53:38 -0500

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    Date: Sun, 16 May 93 01:53:38 -0500

    From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)

    Message-Id: <9305160653.AA26139@wintermute.ncsa.uiuc.edu>

    To: "Chris Weider" <clw@merit.edu>

    Subject: Internet Draft on URNs

    In-Reply-To: <9305142203.AA23447@merit.edu>

"Chris Weider" writes:
> URNs are not intended to be human-readable in the sense that a human could
> look at the URN and determine anything about the contents of the resource.

I think this is may be a fatal design flaw. If URL's are not intended
to be human readable/usable (and they're really not), and URN's aren't
either, then what will be?

Cheers,
Marc

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    Marc Andreessen
    Software Development Group
    National Center for Supercomputing Applications
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