- From: Jon Knight <J.P.Knight@lut.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 15:10:16 +0100 (BST)
- To: Michael Shapiro <mshapiro@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
- Cc: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>, uri@bunyip.com
On Wed, 16 Aug 1995, Michael Shapiro wrote: > I was trying to ask these 2 questions: > > 1. To get long term persistence, do we have to have a new name space? I think that a new name space is a definate advantage if we want long term persistence. But we might also when to support ``legacy namespaces'' as well. > 2. Will a new top level DNS domain be a sufficient new name space, or > do we have to do something which is not DNS based? I've been a big DNS fan for a long time; some years ago now Martin Hamilton and myself played about with using the DNS to resolve lookups for resources because to us it seemed an obvious bit of technology that the URI WG could reuse. Lets make things easy on ourselves, eh? Jon -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Jon Knight, Researcher, Sysop and General Dogsbody, Department of Computer Studies, Loughborough University of Technology, Leics., ENGLAND. LE11 3TU. *** Nothing looks so like a man of sense as a fool who holds his tongue ***
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