# Re: URN namespace

Jon Knight (J.P.Knight@lut.ac.uk)
Wed, 16 Aug 1995 15:10:16 +0100 (BST)

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    Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 15:10:16 +0100 (BST)

    From: Jon Knight <J.P.Knight@lut.ac.uk>

    To: Michael Shapiro <mshapiro@ncsa.uiuc.edu>

    Subject: Re: URN namespace

    In-Reply-To: <9508161236.AA21785@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu>

    Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950816150701.20210w-100000@weeble.lut.ac.uk>

On Wed, 16 Aug 1995, Michael Shapiro wrote:
> I was trying to ask these 2 questions:
>
> 1. To get long term persistence, do we have to have a new name space?

I think that a new name space is a definate advantage if we want long
term persistence. But we might also when to support ``legacy
namespaces'' as well.

> 2. Will a new top level DNS domain be a sufficient new name space, or
> do we have to do something which is not DNS based?

I've been a big DNS fan for a long time; some years ago now Martin
Hamilton and myself played about with using the DNS to resolve lookups
for resources because to us it seemed an obvious bit of technology that
the URI WG could reuse. Lets make things easy on ourselves, eh?

Jon

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