# Re: Web and Mail integration: a few key connections.

Tim Berners-Lee (timbl@www3.cern.ch)
Mon, 8 Nov 93 12:03:19 +0100

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    Date: Mon, 8 Nov 93 12:03:19 +0100

    From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@www3.cern.ch>

    Message-Id: <9311081103.AA07661@www3.cern.ch>

    To: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>

    Subject: Re: Web and Mail integration: a few key connections.

>There is a need for a URN-like thing that can be absoultely tied to
a
>particular format of an object. Without such a URN there is no way
to
>cache/replicate objects correctly.

(URN-like thing =~ "URI", the generic identifier)

The HTTP spec has, in the object metainfo, a URI: header.
It specifies a URI for the object.
The "vary=" parameter of this header specifies whether the
URI refers to the exact binary pattern, or whether it can
refer to "variants" of language, content-type or version.
(These are the only variants curerntly explicit, one can
imagine others)
Caching systems obviously use this information intelligently
to know whether they have a copy verbatim of an object or a copy of
one instance of a generic object.

Tim

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