- From: Martin Hamilton <martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 05:12:11 +0100
- To: "Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@beach.w3.org>
- cc: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>, Philipp.Hoschka@w3.org, www-html@w3.org, www-talk@w3.org
"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
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