- From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
- Date: Sun, 09 Jul 1995 18:24:07 -0400
- To: Martin Hamilton <martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk>
- Cc: uri@bunyip.com, moore@cs.utk.edu
> Keith Moore writes: > > | The "URNs considered harmful" draft has a similar proposal, only > | it uses the domain from a URL as the "naming authority" for the > | DNS lookup. > > The approach you suggest appeals greatly, though I think it would be > even nicer were there a way to get at least the catalog server's port > number and protocol name into the RCS records... :-) Actually, the RC server that we have written serves as both a catalog server (for URNs/URLs) and a location information server (for LIFNs) (there is a separate RPC call for each function). If we can standardize on a single interface to a catalog server, life becomes a lot simpler. If we cannot standardize on this, it makes sense to put the port number and protocol name in the RCS record. Keith
Received on Sunday, 9 July 1995 18:24:29 UTC