- From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
- Date: Sat, 08 Jul 1995 03:58:37 -0400
- To: uri@bunyip.com
- Cc: moore@cs.utk.edu
This didn't quite make it under the wire for the Stockholm
Internet-drafts deadline, but I hope it prompts some useful
discussion.
The document can be found at
ftp://cs.utk.edu/pub/moore/draft-ietf-uri-urns-harmful-00.txt
Keith
Location-Independent URLs
or
URNs considered harmful
draft-ietf-uri-urns-harmful-00.txt
Abstract
This document describes a means by which location-independent access to
resources can be provided, without creating a new class of resource
names. Instead, a resolution service is proposed for existing URLs,
which allows information providers to advertise meta-information about a
resource named by a URL, and/or alternate locations from which that par-
ticular resource might be accessed.
Depending on your point of view, the approach described in this document
might be taken as one or more of: (a) an alternative solution to the
"URL problem", (b) a strategy for gradual transition from URLs to URNs,
or (c) a worst-case scenario in the event that URN adoption takes too
long.
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