Re: Why the Web needs to change

Bert Bos (bert@let.rug.nl)
Wed, 30 Mar 1994 13:17:44 --100

|The IETF URI group has been working for decades on defining such a
|beast -- the URN (Uniform Resource Name). It's currently expected by
|the year 2009.
|
|Cheers,
|Marc

Marc is a bit pessimistic, I think. Maybe we won't have `real' URNs in
this decade, but for most document the URL *is* the URN. And indeed
the current caches use URLs in that way.

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