Message-Id: <9403032030.AA00983@expresso.bunyip.com>
From: Peter Deutsch <peterd@bunyip.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 15:30:45 -0500
In-Reply-To: Alexander Dupuy's message as of Mar 3, 13:33
To: dupuy@smarts.com (Alexander Dupuy), hallam@alws.cern.ch, moore@cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: FTP URL mapping
[ You wrote: ]
. . .
> > Now imagine md2.sol.moon suffers some catastrophe or is upgraded
> > to a VMS system. We do not want the code link to change.
>
> While this might be a desirable feature, I'm not sure it's feasible. Using
> this URL via "CD security/moonbase" for Unix, but "CD [security.moonbase]" for
> VMS, and "CD security\moonbase" for Windows NT, and N other variants for other
> operating systems is adding too much complexity.
Put another way, we'd be solving the problem in the wrong
place. Sorting out peculiarities of multiple access
methods sounds like a job for a URN to me. This could
reference the UNIX file today, the VMS one tomorrow, etc
and the underlying URN remains unchanged.
- peterd
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