- From: Miles Sabin <miles@milessabin.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 01:33:04 +0100
- To: www-tag@w3.org
Tim Bray wrote, > Paul Cotton wrote: > > Q2: Your text "URNs are not effectively usable" might lead me to > > believe that there might be an effort ongoing to standardize how to > > retrieve resources using URNs. Do you know of such an effort? > > Yes, there are such efforts in the IETF; the acronym doesn't spring > to mind, but that doesn't matter, because I'm sure that several other > people will spring forward to explain why URNs are in fact > retrievable and that TimBL and I are blowing smoke when we claim > they're not. ;-) It's DDDS, and Michael Mealling has collected the relevant RFCs here, http://www.uri.net/ > I accept that mechanisms in principle exist to dereference URNs, it's > just that I've never used a computer where such software was > installed, so it's clearly far from ubiquitous. It's ubiquitous, just under-exploited. All that's needed is a DNS resolver that's a little more flexible than gethostbyname and gethostbyaddr. Cheers, Miles
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