Re: The URN: wrapper and URLs...

Tim Berners-Lee (timbl@www3.cern.ch)
Fri, 8 Oct 93 17:59:49 +0100

Date: Fri, 8 Oct 93 17:59:49 +0100
From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@www3.cern.ch>
Message-Id: <9310081659.AA02883@www3.cern.ch>
To: ccoprmm@oit.gatech.edu (Michael Mealling)
Subject: Re: The URN: wrapper and URLs...

You can tell a URN because it begins with URN:

URLs beigin with something else.

FPIs (ISO formal public identifiers) may end up
inside URN: or as a fpi:

Of couse there is no FPI look up so it's not an interesting
point yet.

Tim

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