[Outages-discussion] [outages] w3.org dtd files really slow? MOVED

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carsten Bormann" <cabo at tzi.org>

> On Jun 18, 2012, at 19:19, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> >> It is time to fix those apps.
> >
> > Nice catch, Carsten; I think I used to know that, but I'd forgotten.
> 
> The reason I remember is that, in designing protocols, we get all that
> push-back when using resolvable URIs for identifying things, because
> people apparently just can't stop resolving (= fetching) them.
> If I had a micropenny for each of these fetches...

If they're not supposed to need to be resolved, why in the name of $DEITY
did they put them in the DNS namespace?  They need to read Don Norman's 
POET, on "affordances" (and their converse).

Cheers,
-- jra
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