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Re: URN: vs alternatives

From: Patrik Faltstrom <paf@bunyip.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 12:57:27 -0500
Message-Id: <v02140613acdfaa78dfae@[192.197.208.4]>
To: Jon Knight <J.P.Knight@lut.ac.uk>, Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
Cc: Daniel LaLiberte <liberte@ncsa.uiuc.edu>, fielding@avron.ics.uci.edu, moore@cs.utk.edu, uri@bunyip.com, urn@mordred.gatech.edu 
At 08.11 95-11-26, Jon Knight wrote:
>This distinction hadn't really hit me in the face until I read Paul's
>messages in the IETF mailing list earlier today, but now I can see why we
>need _both_ DNS style and whois++/LDAP/SOLO/etc URN resolution.

The DNS is very good in giving you data back from for example a query
about a hostname (given a specific name) which handles a service.
We do it today with MX records.

DNS should NOT be used for resolving documents, i.e. the whole URN,
only the NA. The rest (or global searches) should be done with a
protocol suited for that...and this is exactly what we propose
as one scheme for resolving a NA to the service used.

   Patrik
Received on Monday, 27 November 1995 12:58:14 UTC

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