From: Mark Madsen <msm@ansa.co.uk>
Message-Id: <9506231614.AA03638@euclid.ansa.co.uk>
Subject: Re: date in URN
To: peterd@bunyip.com
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 95 17:14:06 BST
In-Reply-To: <9506231409.AA15135@expresso.bunyip.com>; from "Peter Deutsch" at Jun 23, 95 10:09 am
Peter Deutsch wrote:
> What we're currently doing in Silk for our headlines (the
> URN-like results lists generated by URAs) is to have an
> internal structure which contains a human readible string
> (generated by the URA using a variety of techniques,
> including filtering HTML for HREFs, etc) and an
> accompanying URL. In addition, we've also added a
> placeholder for IETF URNs which will be filled in by any
> URN supplied by the net, once they start to arrive.
This description makes a headline sound like a member of the URC
class. Is this the case? If so, could you expand on how exactly
they differ?
> Comparison (remember comparison? Some of us still think
> that being able to compare URNs is going to be vital) will
> be done on that URN, not the displayable string, but
> allowing both lets us maintain a usable human interface.
Sounds like comparison should be possible in a variety of ways. Don't
insist on something that's more restrictive than you need.
Regards, Mark.
PS Due to some mailer-machinations somewhere, a message I sent
yesterday to the list in response to Ron Daniel's comments on my "A
Note on URC Querying" was badly mangled if the copy that I received
was anything to go by. If anyone is interested and missed it as a
result, please contact me and I will send it directly to you in the
interests of bandwidth conservation.
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