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To: timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch
From: "Fred Swartz" <fred.swartz@umich.edu>
Subject: Vote for 'URL' prefix
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Dec 1993 11:53:21 +0100."
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Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1993 11:36:38 -0500
> From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@www3.cern.ch>
...
>Could those with strong views raise their
>hands perhaps? A for or against hand? To get this "rough consensus"
>straight...
This is a medium vote FOR the 'URL' prefix.
Rationale: All the standard arguments. In addition, there is confusion
about whether URN and others in the Uxx series is only parallel to URN,
or may/must be a part of a URL. Eg, would "URL: URN: ..." mean that
the URN was to be evaluated in a URL context and therefore yield its
URL attributes? While the simplest uses of URLs are unambiguous, I
suspect that future Internet referential expressions will benefit from
explicit typing (ie, the use of the URL prefix).
-- Fred (fred.swartz@merit.edu)