[Chapter-delegates] Fwd: Our New Site Has Launched

[Joly MacFie]

I will say, in Lia's defense, that this policy - the longer url - was to my
knowledge instituted well before she got here. The thinking no doubt being,
that branding is important, and unity of branding reinforces that. You try
setting up a google alert on ISOC and I can tell you that you get a lot of
Islamic Societies and very very few Internet ones. There are many more
unfamiliar people than familiar and, I suspect, it is those that the change
is aimed at. Using "pretty" explanatory permalinks to aid comprehension and
recollection is established practice. Previously, and I would imagine this
will continue, one has the choice to abbreviate if one wishes. Does not
take any effort and there's no need to change links elsewhere.

j

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Klaus Birkenbihl <Klaus.Birkenbihl at isoc.de
> wrote:

> On the other hand I bet you discussed the domain/URI issue
> internally and IMHO obviously took a wrong decision.
> Frankly, I wonder if its so easy to fix and I wonder if you read the
> article of Tim Berners-Lee on cool URIs that should not change. You
> applied kind of a surgery to the Web by cutting out an important
> part (www.isoc.org) and replacing it by another one
> (www.internetsociety.org). Now all other parts of the Web that
> were connected to (www.isoc.org) have find their way to the
> new adress. Takes time, effort that's not yours, some will get
> lost, but over time it will be surely mended.
>



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