> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Jonathan Rochkind
> Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 3:52 PM
> To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] registering info: uris?
>
> But when did someone suggest that all identifiers must be resolvable?
> When Andrew argued that:
>
> > Having unresolvable URIs is anti-Web since the Web is a hypertext
> > system where links are required to make it useful. Exposing
> > unresolvable links in content on the Web doesn't make the Web
> > more useful.
>
> Okay, I guess he didn't actually SAY that you should never have non-
> resolvable identifiers, but he rather strongly implied it, by using the
> "anti-Web" epithet.
You are correct that I didn't say that you should never have unresolvable
identifiers and I wasn't implying that either. Though I was pointing out
that sticking Text into the hypertext
system where info URIs are unresolvable negates the effect of linking to it
in the first place.
Andy.
Received on Mon Mar 30 2009 - 16:10:22 EDT