On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 1:36 PM Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 1/7/20 2:33 PM, Michael Richardson wrote:
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> I really wanted URNs to succeed.
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> I have not seen this occur.
Definitions of success vary. URNs are widely used in the information
sciences (e.g., national libraries), but that isn't as visible as the web.
Definitions of success do indeed vary. Without weighing in on this particular issue, the IETF does seem to be clinging to unsuccessful standards like URNs and DNSSEC. That doesn't mean they're bad, but it does mean those standards missed the mark in ways that would have been difficult to predict at the time they were drafted. This failure to reflect is disappointing.
thanks,
Rob
