- From: Fisher Mark <FisherM@exch1.indy.tce.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 15:16:23 -0500
- To: 'Larry Masinter' <masinter@parc.xerox.com>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com, "'hallam@ai.mit.edu'" <hallam@ai.mit.edu>
>Many of the characteristics desired for URNs can be achieved by >embedding a globally unique ID into each document. This could be >simply a Microsoft GUID and I'm told there is already a de-facto >GUID scheme. Note for the pedants: Actually, these are DCE GUIDs (Microsoft re-implemented much (all?) of the low-level constructs of DCE). Nice to see that some of this code escaped... [... much good stuff elided ...] Interesting proposal. ========================================================== Mark Leighton Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics fisherm@indy.tce.com Indianapolis, IN "Browser Torture Specialist, First Class"
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