From: mitra@path.net (Mitra)
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 20:44:40 PST
In-Reply-To: Peter Deutsch <peterd@bunyip.com>
To: peterd@bunyip.com, marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: Thumbnail Sketch of the UR* Arena
Message-Id: <9310272044.aa04957@pandora.sf.ca.us>
On Oct 27, 3:47pm, Peter Deutsch wrote:
} Just a sidebar - do we actually _need_ a "URN->URL
} protocol"? Certainly, we need a format, but do we need a
} query protocol and all that it implies? Seems that we can
} content ourselves with the equivalent of a MIME type for
} formatting responses and we're done.
No way Peter, if a URN is going to be inside a document then, as a
client designer, I need to know how to resolve it, that measn throwing
it at a resolution service and gettign back a result. That involves a
protocol. The protocol could be really simple, but its a protocol none
the less. Its totally useless if their are some URN->URL resolvers
talking whois++ and others talking modified DNS and others talking some
variant of HTTP.
- Mitra