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

Rob Raisch, The Internet Company (raisch@internet.com)
Fri, 15 Oct 1993 17:13:18 -0700 (PDT)

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    Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 17:13:18 -0700 (PDT)

    From: "Rob Raisch, The Internet Company" <raisch@internet.com>

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

    To: Peter Deutsch <peterd@bunyip.com>

    In-Reply-To: <9310152318.AA14612@expresso.bunyip.com>

    Message-Id: <Pine.3.03.9310151748.A3041-a100000@hmmm.internet.com>

Peter,

You raise some interesting points and I think you have make a
strong and persuasive argument. I will need to consider some of the finer
issues, but I think you have convinced me that there is a greater good
served by your vision.

My sin is ascribing far too much function to this thing called a
"URN" when it serves a higher purpose. The retrieval function is then not
a characteristic of the URN, but of those services which utilize it.

"It is not money. It is a piece of paper." -- The value of the
thing is in its use, not in the thing itself. I confused the thing with
its use.

Mea culpa.

</rr>

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