Re: Location vs. names

From: "Sampo Syreeni" <decoy@iki.fi>

> Probably. But once people start thinking about URLs as URNs, and abandon
the
> effort that has gone to resolving generic URNs as opposed to the ease we
can
> deal with URLs, I think the URN effort dies a horrible death. I think that
> URLs and URNs are two different things, neither of which is becoming
> obsolete very soon. On the contrary, people should work to get URN
> resolution working.

Huh?  I thought that URNs were designed to be names and only names.  If we
attach a global resolution meaning to names then we will have URLs.  Me
thinks a name should resolve to what it identifies only in the memory of an
agent hearing or speaking the name.

Seth

Received on Monday, 11 June 2001 09:05:49 UTC