[microformats-discuss] RFC: Thoughts on Video and Audio Microformats

[Charles Iliya Krempeaux]

Hello,

On 10/18/05, Scott Reynen <scott at randomchaos.com> wrote:
> Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
>
> > To be fair, if URNs had gotten picked up, may these uuid's may have
> > seemed more intuitive as a means of identification.   But frankly,
> > I still think it would be clearer to use:
> >
> > urn="urn:http://reptile.ca/~charles/canonical-movie.mov"
> >
> > That is just as unique, but far more human-readable.
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the difference between URN and
> URL was, well, N and L.  N is just a name, but L is a location.

No, there's a much bigger different than that.  URL's and not URN's. 
And URN's are not URL's.  However URL's and URN's are both URI's.

There's RFC's that explain it in much detail though.



See ya

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     Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.

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