Re: Why the Web needs to change

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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 13:17:44 --100
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 |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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