- From: Tim Kindberg <timothy@hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 09:41:51 -0700
- To: uri@w3.org
At 10:50 AM 4/27/2001 -0400, Michael Mealling wrote: >And that's why we have URNs. Its a framework within which you can >define your own namespace but which defines a more specific set of >semantics (persistence, location independence, etc) than URIs in the general >case. Location independence is the wrong assumption for my applications: we require contextual resolution (the opposite). And yet you said: At 11:32 AM 4/27/2001 -0400, Michael Mealling wrote: > > Tags are specifically intended to be 'agnostic' with respect to any > > particular resolution scheme. It's not that they will not get resolved (in > > CoolTown, resolution, usually to URLs, is precisely what we do with them) > > -- but we want all resolvers to be equal, and for the choice of > resolver to > > be made in context, not mandated as a simple function of the given URI. > >URNs made that exact same determination many years ago.... So I'm confused! Thanks, Tim. Tim Kindberg internet & mobile systems lab hewlett-packard laboratories 1501 page mill road, ms 1u-17 palo alto ca 94304-1126 usa www.champignon.net/TimKindberg/ timothy@hpl.hp.com voice +1 650 857 5609 fax +1 650 857 2358
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