- From: Michael Mealling <michaelm@rwhois.net>
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 13:52:35 -0500
- To: "S. Kusuma" <s.kusuma@usa.net>
- CC: www-talk@w3.org
S. Kusuma wrote: > > Hi there! > > Could somebody please hook me up with websites, papers, journals, etc > regarding these topics: > > 1. World-Wide Web growth and commercialization on the Web I'll let the rest of the folx on www-talk handle this one..... > 2. Use or implementation of Uniform Resource Name (URN)and Uniform Resource > Characteristics (URC) URNs are very quickly coming together. The drafts are being finalized and going to standards track in a few weeks. The NAPTR proposal will be out as an experimental RFC soon. Current versions of bind support the NAPTR and SRV records so if you want to provide a URN resolution service you simply need a current version of bind. You can find libraries and other software at <URL:http://www.acl.lanl.gov/URN/>. URCs are another matter. Ron Daniel and I were the primary folx pushing URCs. Since we have been putting our efforts into URNs we really have left URCs alone for a while. Metadata in general is becoming a hot topic in both the W3C and the IETF as well as other organizations. I hope that URCs will eventually make it but right now there are other fish to fry. While I have yet to see a WebCollections draft I think it MIGHT be a good candidate for a URC. -MM -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael Mealling | 505 Huntmar Park Drive | Phone: (703)742-0400 Software Engineer | Herndon, VA 22070 | Fax: (703)742-9552 Network Solutions | <URL:http://www.netsol.com> | michaelm@rwhois.net
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