Re: W3C and Handle technology

"Daniel W. Connolly" writes:

| > This is a deficiency of the URL spec. Some
| >form of DNS for object names seems required in the long term although it may
| >not be feasible in the short term. (Is this related to LDAP? I can't find
| >anything on W3C's site about directory services)
| 
| There are some interesting ideas regarding "web-x records" ala MX
| records, to provide for service providers for HTTP to work kinda like
| they do for SMTP. It provides an extra level of indirection that
| might be useful, but it doesn't change anything fundamentally.

Take a look at draft-gulbrandsen-dns-rr-srvcs-03.txt - in a nameserver 
near you, soon!

Martin

Received on Wednesday, 14 August 1996 00:12:38 UTC