- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 21:42:48 PST
- To: mgodsey@microsoft.com
- Cc: www-talk@w3.org
There are at least three proposals floating to use 'DNS' to change how references work: a) use DNS for finding URN resolution services (cf. various draft-ietf-uri-urn-* proposals). Among other things, URN resolution services would help you find mirror sites and replicas of the 'same' resource. b) use DNS to indicate HTTP-NG vs HTTP support. Simon Spero mentioned this in his talk describing HTTP-NG, that DNS records might indicate the use of a completely different protocol for http://foo.com/path c) use DNS for simple host replication/round robin to indicate multiple sites at different geographic (network topology) locations. Whatever you think of these individually, doing them all with separate DNS entries seems like a bad idea.
Received on Saturday, 23 December 1995 00:43:05 UTC