Re: URx Questions

On 2002-01-21 16:25, "ext Michael Mealling" <michael@neonym.net> wrote:

>> By those standards, URPs may make more sense, since they are
>> explicitly defined not to resolve into anything.
> 
> That _is_ one of the requirements of URNs. They were _never_ required
> to be resolvable in the first place. Many of the currently registered
> URNs will never have a resolution method because non will exist.
> So the lament that "nobody seems to really know how they're going to be
> made resolvable" is missing most of the point of URNs to begin with.
> But maybe that was our fault as well...

There is, I feel, a significant difference between might not resolve
and must not resolve. It is true that a resource denoted by a URN may
never have a digital representation instantiated at any given location,
but that doesn't make such a URN the equivalent of a URP.

Cheers,

Patrick

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