[Wolves] The great marketing debate: Why URI?

[Kevanf1]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 21:31:14 +0000, Andy Wootton
<andy.wootton at wyrley.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> fizzy wrote:
> 
> > --- Chris Ball <chris at mnemonik.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/NOTE-uri-clarification-20010921/
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Any chance you could explain that in English? ;)
> >
> >fizz
> >
> They've been renamed (OK, that is an over-simplification but it hasn't
> caused me any trouble so far)
> 
> Woo
> 
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An analogy.  Think of a URI as transport - not IP protocols aor
anything like that or packets forget internet for a minute - just a
catch all term to mean a mechanical method of getting around.  Under
this umbrella of 'transport' we have skateboards, bicycles, cars,
lorries, aircraft, ships and space craft.  A skateboard is not a ship
or a car but it is transport. A lorry is not a space craft but it is
transport.  So, using this analogy a URL is a URI and so is a URN but
a URL is totally different to a URN.

:-)

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