- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 14:09:01 PDT
- To: uri@bunyip.com
Names are names, and resolution is resolution. You can have a name, and in one scenario resolve it to a URL and in another resolve it to a URC. It would be a mistake to tightly couple the syntax, structure, and semantics of either object names or representations of object characteristics with a particular scenario of establishing, distributing and accessing information about the relations between those. I imagine we will have far more luck if we try to converge on the former set of issues (syntax, structure and semantics) while leaving open the exact mechanisms for dealing with relationships; what _is_ necessary is an existance proof (names, characteristics and objects can be effectively related) without necessarily tying them all together in the same standard.
Received on Wednesday, 14 June 1995 17:08:50 UTC