Re: URLs, URIs, and references

Dirk Herr-Hoyman (hoymand@joe.uwex.edu)
Thu, 27 May 93 09:02:20 -0500 

Date: Thu, 27 May 93 09:02:20 -0500

From: Dirk Herr-Hoyman <hoymand@joe.uwex.edu>

Message-Id: <9305271402.AA03040@joe.uwex.edu>

To: "Chris Weider" <clw@merit.edu>

Subject: Re: URLs, URIs, and references

Date: Wed, 26 May 93 10:11:30 -0400
From: "Chris Weider" <clw@merit.edu>

> URL -> Metainformation mapping.
> Crucial in my model, where all the typing of resources, format
> negotiation, etc, is done with the URL and not with the URN.
>

Chris, could you flush this idea out a bit. I've read the "vision thing" that
you are Peter put together
(ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/interner-drafts/draft-ietf-iiir-vision-00.txt)
which I thought I understood, but I'm not sure how this fits in. Also, we
need to consider that the meta-information may well be stored outside the
resource, especially in bibliographic databases. When this occurs, I don't
see how having a URL for the resource lets you get at the meta-information.

No doubt you have thought these things thru, so I'd appreciate hearing your
deepest, innermost, cocktail napkin thoughts.

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