[35500] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: new.net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Cooper)
Fri Mar 9 20:05:18 2001
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Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 16:59:09 -0800
To: "Mike Batchelor" <mikebat@tmcs.net>
From: Ian Cooper <icooper@equinix.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
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At 16:48 3/9/2001 -0800, Mike Batchelor wrote:
>It's all TBL's fault for inventing a URL format that puts the domain name
>right in front of the user. Hide the browser's location bar somehow, and
>all these problems go away, no matter what strings are used at whatever
>level.
>
>I say we storm the W3C to make them pay for their sins. Or better yet, make
>them run the registries, that'll show 'em. :)
I think you'll find that TBL has, on several occasions, commented that he
never intended for URLs (or HTML for that matter) to be presented to or
handled by humans.
