- From: Foteos Macrides <MACRIDES@sci.wfbr.edu>
- Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 12:41:06 -0500 (EST)
- To: jayhawk@ds.internic.net
- Cc: uri@bunyip.com
Ryan Moats <jayhawk@ds.internic.net> wrote: >[..] >One reason is that URNs are more general than URLs. Another is that >URN syntax pushes the deterministic structure off to the namespace >resolver. Another is that URLs are inherently tied to the underlying >filesystem structure. There are more, but this should be a start. >[...] I don't understand your claim that URLs are inherently tied to the underlying filesystem strucure. The path field in a generic URL is a "slash-separated hierarchy of symbolic elements" (*not* Unix filesystem paths 8-). Each "symbolic element" and/or the overall path field can have mappings to the the local filesystem structure, (e.g., by server mappings and/or local system enviroment variables or symbolic links) but the URL syntax, itself, is platform/filesystem independent. Fote ========================================================================= Foteos Macrides Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research MACRIDES@SCI.WFBR.EDU 222 Maple Avenue, Shrewsbury, MA 01545 =========================================================================
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