[cap-talk] Webkeys vs. the web

[Charles Landau]

Karp, Alan H wrote:
> I have become convinced that we cannot treat webkeys as normal URLs
> because people have become too used to sharing them.  I believe that
> we need to develop a UI that uses webkeys without exposing them to
> the user.

Without inadvertently exposing them to the naive user, perhaps. But it 
should be possible with a little work for the user to get the actual 
text of a webkey, otherwise you are precluding the sort of mashups that 
were a major motivation for webkeys 
(http://waterken.sourceforge.net/web-key/).