# Re: Last Call: URL to Proposed and URN- and IRL-Reqs to Informational

Karen R. Sollins (sollins@lcs.mit.edu)
Thu, 22 Sep 1994 11:56:18 -0400

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    Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 11:56:18 -0400

    Message-Id: <199409221556.LAA00729@lysithea.lcs.mit.edu>

    From: "Karen R. Sollins" <sollins@lcs.mit.edu>

    To: rv@deins.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE

    In-Reply-To: <27081.780214972@deins.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE> (message from Ruediger Volk on Thu, 22 Sep 1994 08:22:52 +0200)

    Subject: Re: Last Call: URL to Proposed and URN- and IRL-Reqs to Informational

I fail to find any full reference to "your" specification; can you provide
a working URL for the documents?
Further information on contacts, mailing lists, archives might be of interest
as well.

Yes, I asked the same question followed by one about why they hadn't
bothered to join our group which is free and open to anyone who cares
to join. There was no particular answer to the second other than
something about that we should already have known about XFN. In
response to the first Norbert reports that the XFN document is only
available on paper from X/Open and only for a fee of $400 and is
intentionally copyrighted to restrict duplication. It is not
available on the net at all. Don't hold your breath for publicly
available mail archives with that attitude toward the work.

By the way, just for the record, X/Open isn't the only industry-based
organization that believes it has a global naming scheme. I don't
think we want at this point to get into a study of all of them to
figure out which ones have partial solutions or answers to some of our
issues. It is also important to understand whether the same or
different problems are being addressed. From the discussion that
Norbert and I had, my strong suspicion is that XFN is addressing a
higher level set of issues, relating to regular and frequent human use
of the names.

I fully agree with Paul Francis and all the others that we should be
getting on with this process.

Karen

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