- From: Sarr Blumson <sarr@umich.edu>
- Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 09:12:17 -0500
- To: "didier ph martin" <dmartin@cedep.com>
- cc: www-talk@w3.org
You might want to look at X/Open's Federated Naming. Someplace on www.opengroup.org/ In message <199703052146.QAA07319@octave.collegeleboeuf.qc.ca>, "didier ph martin" writes: > > >During the past months we have worked on an implementation of the MCF >language (ref: >http://mcf.research.apple.com/hs/mcf.html). However, instead of using URLs >identifier for units we used URNs. We looked at >several draft: >PATH URL: draft-ietf-uri-urn-path-01.txt >PURL >Handle > >We found in these projects very interesting things, but we got a major >constraint. Independently of turf and religion wars (which >remind me of some dark ages) we have market constraints. Concretely, this >means that to implement name spaces (at the base of >URN), we have to deal with Novell NDS, Microsoft Active Directory, DNS on >some systems, the desktop name space and so >on... Even if we grabbed ideas from these previously mentioned projects, we >had, after more thought, to design a URN protocol >that would take into account this reality. -------- Sarr Blumson sarr@umich.edu voice: +1 313 764 0253 home: +1 313 665 9591 ITD, University of Michigan http://www-personal.umich.edu/~sarr/ 535 W William, Ann Arbor, MI 48103-4943
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