# Re: Seattle minutes

Michael Mealling (ccoprmm@oit.gatech.edu)
Thu, 7 Apr 94 13:53:29 EDT

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    From: ccoprmm@oit.gatech.edu (Michael Mealling)

    Message-Id: <199404071753.AA06761@oit.gatech.edu>

    Subject: Re: Seattle minutes

    To: moore@cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore)

    Date: Thu, 7 Apr 94 13:53:29 EDT

    In-Reply-To: <199404070200.WAA28357@wilma.cs.utk.edu>; from "Keith Moore" at Apr 6, 94 10:00 pm

Keith Moore said this:
> Peter --
> I agree that the hard part of doing URN->URL translation is not in
> defining the protocol. I personally don't think it's very difficult
> to find an appropriate server, so long as we can use DNS as a starting
> point.

But as long as we aren't _forced_ to use DNS in order for things to work.
I'd hate for this system to only be able to work on TCP/IP networks.
So far there's nothing keeping someone from specifying a URL for a
resource on an IPX or BITNET network.

-MM

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