- From: Michael Mealling <michael@bailey.dscga.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 22:52:20 -0500 (EST)
- To: fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu
- Cc: uri@bunyip.com, connolly@w3.org, urn-ietf@bunyip.com, timbl@w3.org, masinter@parc.xerox.com, Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no, moore@cs.utk.edu, lassila@w3.org, swick@w3.org, tbray@textuality.com, jeanpa@microsoft.com, cmsmcq@uic.edu, dsr@w3.org, lehors@w3.org, ij@w3.org
Roy T. Fielding said this: > One of the nice things about being out with a cold for three days > is you get to see the tail end of these conversations before being > able to reply. Nice to hear from you. I was beginning to wonder where you were these days! I just had to quible on one of your points. The rest are old arguments that we both know by heart. > Please note that the "L" in "URL" represents "Locator", not "Location". > Any naming scheme that requires there exist some mechanism for resolution, > whether or not the mechanism is currently in operation, changes over time, > or subject to multiple levels of indirection, is a locator. URNs never required a mechanism for resolution. > There do exist names that are not locators, but those names are not URNs. Actually, unless the documents have changed the design was that the URN need not have a resolution method. The design was that URNs be defined without ever mentioning a resolution mechansim. Resolution mechanisms were proposed but they were seperate documents that had no bearing on the identifiers themsevles. The idea was to make all URNs into names that are not locators. E.g. the entire point was that URNs only do one thing: name something. So in that sense they are not Locators. They are Identifiers. If you define a seperate resolution mechanism and use it to find things that claim to have that name then you might have a Locator but that idea applies not to the Identifier but to what your are using some resolution/database lookup process for. I'll shutup now... -MM -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael Mealling | 505 Huntmar Park Drive | Phone: (703)742-0400 Software Engineer | Herndon, VA 22070 | Fax: (703)742-9552 Network Solutions | <URL:http://www.netsol.com> | michaelm@rwhois.net
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