Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 11:50:29 -0500
Message-Id: <199310281650.AA29374@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>, uri@bunyip.com
From: e-krol@uiuc.edu (Ed Krol)
Subject: Re: options, not nesting?
At 19:04 10/27/93 -0700, Larry Masinter wrote:
>Rather than making URNs and URLs and URCs and URMs all different
>things, one of which contains the other all nested, how about just
>allowing various information to be optional?
I actually dislike the idea in the case of names and locators
because I don't think it comes onstrongly enough to promote use
of names and to curtail use of locators.
I think they are distinct things with different uses.
I do feel that the other stuff might be an optional part of the
URN.
--- Ed Krol Phone: 217 333 7886 University of Illinois 1120 DCL 1304 W. Springfield Urbana, IL 61801