[9602] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: URL Expansion proposal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam M. Donahue)
Sun Jan 14 13:55:09 1996
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 13:37:24 -0500 (EST)
From: "Adam M. Donahue" <donahue@acf2.nyu.edu>
To: Israel del Rio <idelrio@abstraction.com>
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <199601140614.XAA29504@teal.csn.net>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
> primarily for commercial purposes. People wishing to access a University
> or EDU site could still use the URL as they do today. I realize that other
This seems redundant. I think these two methods would only further
confuse ma and pa (not that they couldn't understand the current URL).
> I do not think the question is whether people can learn the meaning
> of the URL, I just find it it morally abhorrent to force grandma or
> grandpa to understand what, in the end, are UNIX file system conventions.
My gosh -- it's not _that_ confusing! Morally abhorrent? That's a
little reactionary.
> thing. In any case, if a business does not wish to adhered to a naming
> convention they will be just as free to advertise the full URL as they do
> today. The latter would be to their commerical disadvantage.
Again, two different methods would only confuse more. What's nice about
a standard like the current URL is that it is a little bit flexible.
Yours simply isn't.
Adam
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