# Re: No "TOP" of the docuverse [Was: URC usage scenarios ]

Peter Deutsch (peterd@bunyip.com)
Fri, 7 Oct 1994 09:38:58 -0400

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    Message-Id: <9410071339.AA11606@expresso.bunyip.com>

    From: Peter Deutsch <peterd@bunyip.com>

    Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 09:38:58 -0400

    In-Reply-To: Larry Masinter's message as of Oct  6, 23:54

    To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>, rtor@ansa.co.uk

    Subject: Re: No "TOP" of the docuverse [Was: URC usage scenarios ]

[ Larry Masinter wrote: ]

> Most discussions about URNs seem to also leave out another important
> constraint: that URNs have a longer lifetime than the publisher/host
> that originated them. I think it's important that the Name->Address
> resolution system allow for the possibility that institutions
> disappear as well as split, merge, spin of sub-components.
>
> Systems that are based on looking up the DNS of the 'original
> publishing host' will fail because most DNS names disappear or get
> reassigned over time.

Hear! Hear! That's why the DNS-based proposals make me
nervous. I think we're in effect trying to hardwire in a
URL for resolution into the URN. In some cases this will
be practical. In others, it will come back to bite us...

- peterd

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