# Re: no 'object architecture' in URI working group

Mark Madsen (msm@ansa.co.uk)
Wed, 12 Jul 95 11:59:04 BST

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    From: Mark Madsen <msm@ansa.co.uk>

    Message-Id: <9507121059.AA00908@euclid.ansa.co.uk>

    Subject: Re: no 'object architecture' in URI working group

    To: masinter@parc.xerox.com (Larry Masinter)

    Date: Wed, 12 Jul 95 11:59:04 BST

    In-Reply-To: <95Jul11.111542pdt.2762@golden.parc.xerox.com>; from "Larry Masinter" at Jul 11, 95 11:15 am

Larry Masinter wrote:
> Whether or not the IETF should standardize on an object system
> architecture (CORBA or no):
The IETF _should_not_ standardise on an object system architecture.
It should develop architectural frameworks within which future object
system architectures can exist and be exploited.

> a) it won't happen in the URI working group

It shouldn't happen in the URI working group. It's an accident of
history that the subject has been raised again.

BUT: as a matter of principle, the URI group should not ignore the
existing standards, neither should it close off desirable future
development pathways.

> b) the URI working group should not wait until it happens

Strongly agreed.

> so I'd like to close off this discussion, except insofar as it affects
> the topics at hand:
>
> Are there URL or URN schemes that would be used for naming CORBA or
> SOM or OLE objects? Is there a CORBA/SOM/OLE equivalent for URCs?

As I've said already, SOM is supposed to be CORBA compliant. IBM
signed the CORBA 2.0 spec. I can't speak for Microsoft, but they have
said that OLE will be CORBA interoperable. Sticking with CORBA, there
isn't a problem in defining URCs, except that there is as yet no
specified mapping of CORBA to SGML.

> Conversely, are there ways that URLs, URNs and URCs are reasonably
> expressed inside CORBA or OLE etc? I vaguely remember something (a
> conjecture?) that Microsoft's Internet Assistant embedded URLs inside
> OLE links, for example.
This way round, it seems that one could define URNs to be understood
as CORBA tagged profiles and use an ORB to provide a resolution
service.

> These interoperability mechanisms might well make topics for
> useful RFCs.

Strongly agreed.

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