Date: Fri, 15 Oct 93 07:36:00 -0700
From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
Message-Id: <9310151436.AA01835@wintermute.ncsa.uiuc.edu>
To: Peter Deutsch <peterd@bunyip.com>
Subject: Re: The URN: wrapper and URLs...
In-Reply-To: <9310142250.AA13164@expresso.bunyip.com>
Peter Deutsch writes:
> [ Simon wrote: ]
>
> > One idea that I've been wondering about, and can't remember if we discussed
> > or not was making a URN have the same syntax as a URL (e.g. have a special
> > URL type, URN, and having a URN be <URN://AUTHORITY:PUBLISHER::NUMBER>
>
> God forbid that we should preserve that ridiculous and
> unnecessary double-/ syntax in the URNs as well! I don't
> object to making it optional to avoid breaking previous
> code, but it's such a blatant hack that it really offends
> my sense of artistic balance no end... :-(
>
> Having vented my spleen on such a minor topic, my vote on
> the topic of consistent wrapping would be to make the
> <UR*:[opaque string] > format the standard for the whole
> family.
Conspicuously missing from your counter-proposal is a mechanism by
which a client knows where to go to locate (or dereference) the
resource. Could you elaborate?
Marc