# Re: The URN: wrapper and URLs...

Peter Deutsch (peterd@bunyip.com)
Thu, 14 Oct 1993 18:50:18 -0400

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    From: Peter Deutsch <peterd@bunyip.com>

    Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1993 18:50:18 -0400

    In-Reply-To: Simon E Spero's message as of Oct  8, 16:54

    To: Simon E Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>, "Chris Weider" <clw@merit.edu>

    Subject: Re: The URN: wrapper and URLs...

For those who haven't seen it elsewhere, I apologize for
not participating in the email threads of late. Alan and I
have been on the road for business and are still digging
out.

[ Simon wrote: ]

> One idea that I've been wondering about, and can't remember if we discussed
> or not was making a URN have the same syntax as a URL (e.g. have a special
> URL type, URN, and having a URN be <URN://AUTHORITY:PUBLISHER::NUMBER>

God forbid that we should preserve that ridiculous and
unnecessary double-/ syntax in the URNs as well! I don't
object to making it optional to avoid breaking previous
code, but it's such a blatant hack that it really offends
my sense of artistic balance no end... :-(

Having vented my spleen on such a minor topic, my vote on
the topic of consistent wrapping would be to make the
<UR*:[opaque string] > format the standard for the whole
family.

I think would be a real win in the long-term development
of this stuff.

- peterd

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