Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 12:57:30 +0500
From: Gary.Adams@east.sun.com (Gary Adams - Sun Microsystems Labs BOS)
Message-Id: <9409231657.AA13060@zeppo.East.Sun.COM>
To: rv@deins.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE, sollins@lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Last Call: URL to Proposed and URN- and IRL-Reqs to Informational
> From uri-request@mocha.bunyip.com Thu Sep 22 13:04:58 1994
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> available on the net at all. Don't hold your breath for publicly
> available mail archives with that attitude toward the work.
Personally, I look at the XFN interest in URN effort as a great opportunity
to bring some of the "web" philosophy into yet another camp of people that
would greatly benefit from higher availability and greater openness in their
development processes. There are numerous examples already on the web that
demonstrate how an organization with a head start in "web" thinking has made
it possible for town government, elementary schools and pizza/pasta vendors
to "get into the web" by loaning expertise, equipment or cyberspace. I'm not
holding my breath waiting for people in the old school to jump on the band
wagon. Instead, I'm handing out tickets and travel brochures to entice them
into a new way of doing business that is beneficial for all parties
concerned.
>
> By the way, just for the record, X/Open isn't the only industry-based
> organization that believes it has a global naming scheme. I don't
> think we want at this point to get into a study of all of them to
> figure out which ones have partial solutions or answers to some of our
> issues. It is also important to understand whether the same or
> different problems are being addressed. From the discussion that
> Norbert and I had, my strong suspicion is that XFN is addressing a
> higher level set of issues, relating to regular and frequent human use
> of the names.
A full reset would be a bad idea, but it would be good to track similar
efforts and to leverage where possible components of common interest. Recent
discussions concerning HTML and ICADD markup have proved beneficial in
identifying some commonality that may be easily acheived in future revs of
the HTML specification.
Don't break stride if you're near the finish line, but if there's a long race
ahead, it's a good idea to pick the right time to break away from the pack.