# Re: Globalizing URIs

Dirk.vanGulik (Dirk.vanGulik@jrc.it)
Fri, 11 Aug 1995 12:08:17 +0200

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    Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 12:08:17 +0200

    From: "Dirk.vanGulik" <Dirk.vanGulik@jrc.it>

    Message-Id: <9508111008.AA02658@ jrc.it>

    To: uri@bunyip.com

    Subject: Re: Globalizing URIs

A minor aside:

There seems to be quite some concern as wether URI's ought
to be human readble, type-able, visable, etc.

Based on medium sized survey, see below, I would suggest that we do
not focus too much on human readdable URLs, but we do insist
that URLs can be transfered from person to person and are
easy to type in. People seem to regard them as opague
strings, just like phone numbers.

They know how to enter them, but they cannot be bothered
by them any further.

Dw.

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We did a recent survey on how people used URLs. Only users
which requested more thant 2 Mb/three days or 250 documents
a week (whichever was first satisfied) for at least 4 consequtive
weeks where included. N=1329. Some results:

Knew what a URL was 21%
Knew what URL stood for 18%
Knew how to go to a page if you gave them 89% !!!!!
'the address'
Could thell us how to see a URL of a page 22%
Could tell us the URL of the page 29% !!!!!
they where looking at
Knew the URL of the insitute home page 71%
(which is on their card)
Could tell us the URL of their own 83%
home page (also on their card)
Given a URL, tell us where it comes
from country/edu/gov domain correct 23%
protocol understanding 21%
hostname understanding 48%
file/path/script understanding 22%

Take the values with a bit of salt, not all participants
and investigators where equaly versed in the language used
to communicate. And the SD was quite high. The order of
the questions allowed 'guided recognition'.

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