- From: Al Gilman <asg@severn.wash.inmet.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 14:52:48 -0500 (EST)
- To: uri@bunyip.com
- Cc: elevinso@Accurate.COM, ietf-types@uninett.no
Does it serve any useful purpose, in reviewing the proposed "mid and cid URL schemes" to point out that the RFC 822 MIDs and RFC 1521 CIDs are our leading legacy example of World-unique resource _names_? That is to say, creating a syntactic scheme whereby they fit into the URI family is to create a class of URNs. These items are more aptly called URNs than URLs. The information in the URI does not tell you where to find the object or how to get it. They are identifiers by which we validate that we have an instance of a particular named thing, given that we got a candidate instance somehow. Al Gilman gilman@wash.inmet.com
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