- From: Mark Madsen <msm@ansa.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jul 95 10:23:19 BST
- To: FisherM@is3.indy.tce.com
- Cc: uri@bunyip.com, msm@ansa.co.uk
Mark Fisher wrote: <snip> > Because: > 1) URN resolution services are just a database system; and > 2) The most successful database technology so far (relational > databases) does not include the resolution path in the query, but > leaves up to the resolver; > I think that we should follow the direction of other database > systems by not encoding the resolution path into the URN. Mark, thank you for pointing this out so lucidly. I would like to reiterate my agreement with this position in the strongest possible terms. (See also my response to Rich Salz's message about object technology.) > Mark Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics -- Mark Madsen: <msm@ansa.co.uk> <URL:http://www.ansa.co.uk/Staff/msm.html> Information Services Framework, The ANSA Project, APM Ltd., Castle Park, Cambridge CB3 0RD, U.K. <URL:http://www.ansa.co.uk/>; <apm@ansa.co.uk> Voice: +44-1223-568934; Reception: +44-1223-515010; Fax: +44-1223-359779
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