Michael Mealling writes:
Because, particular codifications of it in the law aside, it represents
a pretty good description of how human beings cognitively use names and
words.
No, it simply represents the way trademark holders force others to do
their bidding. IP law is already enough of a pox on society as it is,
there's no reason to make it worse by encoding it in the world's only
global computer network.
It has many centuries of operational experience and it apparently
works for everything humans need it to.
Centuries of experience for trademarks? I seem to recall it being
much younger than that. And abuse of such concepts has increased
exponentially over the past few decades.
But for some reason those of us who designed the Internet seem to
think we're above all of that and can dictate a system to the end
users that's dissonate with how they actually think and view the
world.
Except that 99.999% of all Internet users do _not_ think in terms of
trademark law. Only a handful of extremely wealthy corporations think
in that way.
Well, I didn't want to get into specifics but from what I've seen a URI
with a service identifier tag seems to be fine for everyone that has
looked a the problem.... So you shouldn't be nervous, the web seems to
be working just fine....
What do URIs not have now that they need?
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