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Re:We have broken HTTP by pluma on Monday January 12, 2015 @08:17AM (#8873705)
I think the implication is meant to be "they look like URNs because they are".
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Re:We have broken HTTP by wtbob on Monday January 12, 2015 @09:31AM (#8874012)
Except that they're not; rather, they're ARNs. URNs must begun with 'urn:'. It doesn't make a lot of sense that they're not URNs, but…they're not.
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Re:We have broken HTTP by eropple on Monday January 12, 2015 @02:50PM (#8875990)
My guess: "nobody uses URNs generally, so might as well save four bytes off every one?"
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