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Re: URN Resolution Paths Considered Harmful

From: Patrik Faltstrom <paf@bunyip.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 09:54:47 -0400
Message-Id: <v0211014bac2199c127d4@[192.197.208.4]>
To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>, sollins@lcs.mit.edu
Cc: liberte@ncsa.uiuc.edu, uri@bunyip.com, FisherM@is3.indy.tce.com 
At 17.21 95-07-05, Larry Masinter wrote:
>Should someone be able to replicate a URN->URL service? I.e., is there
>a way to ask the URN->URL service: "What URNs do you resolve and what
>are their URLs?"
>
>Are there any privacy issues here?

Definitely, yes, there are privacy issues here.

A URN can for example identify a white-pages record, and in some
countries there is legal issues bound to what kind of fetches you
are able to do. In sweden you are not allowed, when having a
white-pages database, to have sameone able to "dump" the database.
You are only allowed searching, and you are forced to only allow
a certain number of "hits".

    Patrik
Received on Thursday, 6 July 1995 09:54:32 UTC

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