On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 03:24:41PM -0500, Brandon wrote: > > > I still think we should use Gregorian/GMT/Base10, since these are numbers > > that > > are meaningful to even non-technical humans. The other problem I see with > > this (besides the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" argument) is that it > > puts > > the responsiblity of configuring the DBR correctly on the person linking to > > the document, instead of the person uploading it, which seems wrong to me. > > I don't agree. The person linking just gets a link from the document > publisher. It just happens to have more characters in it now. The linker > obviously isn't supposed to make up the URI themselves.
You could argue that less readable the DBR key is the less likely that someone is going to screw around with it. If it's a magic value that you can't change make it *look* magic and indecipherable. -- GCS d s+:-- a--- C++++ UL++++ P L+++ E W++ N- o K- w-- O- M V- PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP+++ t 5 X R+ tv-- b+ DI+ D++ G e- h! r-- y-- pete at petertodd.ca http://retep.tripod.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20010404/d9c4e771/attachment.pgp>
