- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Sat, 08 Feb 1997 21:08:15 -0500
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Peter Murray-Rust wrote: > I am not familiar with the URN process in detail - am I right in assuming > that it based on DNS? As I understand it, there is no URN process: " Last, this document intentionally does not address the problem of name resolution, other than to recommend that for each naming authority a name translation mechanism exist. Naming authorities assign names, while resolvers or location services of some sort assist or provide URN to URL mapping. There may be one or many such services for the resources named by a particular naming authority. It may also be the case that there are generic ones providing service for many resources of differing naming authorities. Some may be authoritative and others not. Some may be highly reliable or highly available or highly responsive to updates or highly focussed by other criteria such as subject matter. Of course, it is also possible that some naming authorities will also act as resolvers for the resources they have named. This document supports and encourages third party and distributed services in this area, and therefore intentionally makes no statements about requirements of URNs or naming authorities on resolvers." http://sunsite.auc.dk/RFC/rfc/rfc1737.html Paul Prescod
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