RE: Persistent caches - was: Are *relative* URIs as namespace nem es considered harmful? from James Tauber on 2000-05-20 (xml-uri@w3.org from May 2000)

From: James Tauber <JTauber@bowstreet.com>
Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 15:23:00 -0400
To: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>, xml-uri@w3.org
Message-ID: <10A4D120D026D41181E700B0D020AA8C0EBEEC@mail.hq.bowstreet.com>

> FPIs now allow delegation mechanisms, so nothing prevents us 
> from setting up a bunch of FPI root servers that know how to delegate down
the > FPI tree.   All that's really needed is a simple server-to-server 
> protocol, a well-known port, and some commitment.

My early FPI-resolution proposals envisaged a separate protocol but then it
occurred to me that by achieving the delegation via SGML Open catalogs,
catalogs could be referenced by URL so no dedicated protocol was needed.

James

Received on Saturday, 20 May 2000 15:24:52 UTC