From: ccoprmm@oit.gatech.edu (Michael Mealling)
Message-Id: <199310081703.AA13699@oit.oit.gatech.edu>
Subject: Re: The URN: wrapper and URLs...
To: kgamiel@vinca.cnidr.org (Kevin Gamiel)
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 93 13:03:05 EDT
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.05.9310081240.J4528-b100000@vinca.cnidr.org>; from "Kevin Gamiel" at Oct 8, 93 12:31 pm
Kevin Gamiel said this:
> On Fri, 8 Oct 1993, Michael Mealling wrote:
> > Not being in Amsterdam I don't know if this was mentioned but did anyone
> > ever decide if URLs could have "URL:" as a wrapper so we could easily tell
> > the difference between a URL and a URN? It's not in the URL draft but
> > I rememeber everyone talking about it but I never heard a resolution.
> > Thanks!
>
> If I remember correctly, we decided that URNs would have the "URN:", but
> not URLs. If we plan to have UR-blahs, seems like they all should be
> wrapped appropriately for consistancy.
Hmm...it seems like we have two methods to resolve then:
<item>
and
UR*:info
Could we combine them into <UR*:info>? Or would that break everything?
-MM
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