- From: Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 09:22:02 +0100
- To: Lee Jonas <lee.jonas@cakehouse.co.uk>
- Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
At 01:31 PM 4/6/01 +0100, Lee Jonas wrote: >N2L & L2N service >================= > > >From what I understand, you propose a N2L service of replacing "urn:xxx:" >with "http:", and a L2N service of providing additional metadata with >resources to convey any L2N mappings. > >I would suggest something altogether different. > >It strikes me that mapping some abstract string to an address is exactly >analogous to DNS. I would propose a distributed service similar to DNS+HTTP >and reverse-DNS for N2L & L2N lookups: Please see documents listed at <http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/urn-charter.html>, especially those internet drafts relating to DDDS. I think these are currently in last call as proposed standard RFCs. #g
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