- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 14:10:49 -0500 (EST)
- To: lee@sq.com
- Cc: digitome@iol.ie, w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
> It occurs to me, in fact, that if we simply allow SYSTEM entries > in our CATALOGs, and allow nothing else (except possibly DELEGATE or > CATALOG entries??), we have no need for PUBLIC at all. > > You get all the indirection you like. So now *every* URL must be looked up in the catalog? And if we design a global resolution system then every URL must be looked up first in the global resolution system (which could be several network messages) and then, on failure, is directly accessed? I prefer to call a spade a spade: public identifiers are designed to be looked up. They are not addresses. System identifiers describe where something lives: they are addresses. Paul Prescod
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