# Re: Why URN is a subset of URL

Mitra (mitra@path.net)
Fri, 7 Oct 94 23:43:35 -0400

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    Date: Fri, 7 Oct 94 23:43:35 -0400

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    To: uri@bunyip.com

    From: mitra@path.net (Mitra)

>In article <94Oct6.235436pdt.2760@golden.parc.xerox.com> Larry Masinter,
>masinter@parc.xerox.com writes:
>>Systems that are based on looking up the DNS of the 'original
>>publishing host' will fail because most DNS names disappear or get
>>reassigned over time.

Not true - the proposal that I made a while ago, of <dns>.urn was designed
to allow extremely rapid lookup now, while lasting significantly beyond the
lifetime of DNS names (or even DNS itself.
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