From: mitra@pandora.sf.ca.us (Mitra)
Subject: Re: More URIURC
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1994 23:10:02 GMT
Message-Id: <CoMtor.3IE@pandora.sf.ca.us>
Good comments Terry.
I think the idea of having pointers to citation indexes solves this
problem a lot better than having the original URC edited.
There is one point that I think we disagree on .. let me see if I can
explain it so it gets pulled out as a seperate question?
I think (although I dont think my scenario depends on this) that.....
a) The publisher controls who it cites as the official URN->URC
resolution services for its documents. This is who a simplistic client
will use to resolve the URN's to URLs
b) It doesnt control who else has URC's that refer to this URN and give
any other kind of information about it, so a global URN->URC service
could set up, and index everyone whether or not the publisher agrees.
I think this will work - although I'm concerned about pathological cases
where it doesnt?
- Mitra