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From: Keith Moore <[e-mail]>
To: Lewis Girod <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: [URN] I18N does not belong in URNs
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> Of course, as you point out there is no way to stop people from
> putting semantics into names; the most effective way to deal with the
> issue is to implement a system of user friendly names over the top of
> URNs; 99% of the time the user would see and type only a UFN, and
> these UFNs would be resolved to the URNs that could then be used as
> long-lived references.

Yes.  Precisely.

Keith