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
-- Marc Andreessen Software Development Group National Center for Supercomputing Applications marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu