Message-Id: <9411040835.AA08003@mocha.bunyip.com>
To: uri@bunyip.com
Subject: draft-ietf-uri-irl-fun-req-01.txt IESG comments
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 1994 09:35:27 +0100
From: "Erik Huizer (SURFnet BV)" <Erik.Huizer@surfnet.nl>
"A resource locator is a kind of resource identifier."???
As Noel as frequently emphasised on big-internet, there is a difference
between a name (an identifier, a topologically insensitive thing), and
a locator. An irl (and a url) is a locator. It describes where something
is right now. It is not the identifier for the thing. Permitting this
confusion will, sooner or later, cause difficulty.
It is interesting that section 3.3 says that the document makes
few uniqueness requirements. In fact it explicitly makes NO
uniqueness requirements under any definition of uniqueness.
I think that the introduction to section 3.3 ought to say that uniqueness
is a non-goal, and that these are the specific forms of uniqueness that
were considered in reaching that conclusion.
While this is probably irrelevant, I actually find it odd that the
"locator" includes the "service" to access the resource. This
is probably defensible, but it is odd.
missing security section
missing authors address
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