On Dec 1, 2006, at 3:55 PM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: >> If you mean "why not call it URI?", >> Yeah, that's what I mean, and worried about collapsing the notion of > URI as a name, and URL as a location. I'm skeptical we can rely on > parsing a URL fo extracting a DOI/ISBN/etc. Data point: ISBNs are already being reliably extracted from URLs: http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/stories/2002/12/11/librarylookup.html Peace, Scott