# Re: Internet Draft on URNs

Michael Mealling (ccoprmm@oit.gatech.edu)
Mon, 17 May 93 12:23:46 EDT

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

    Message-Id: <199305171623.AA20076@oit.gatech.edu>

    Subject: Re: Internet Draft on URNs

    To: e-krol@uiuc.edu (Ed Krol)

    Date: Mon, 17 May 93 12:23:46 EDT

    In-Reply-To: <199305171338.AA21365@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>; from "Ed Krol" at May 17, 93 8:38 am

Ed Krol said this:
>But everyone in the world carries around that metainformation and it is
>useful and will remain used. If I say the Weider/Deutsch URN paper
>I am counting on our metainformation being enough alike to make an ambiguous
>reference. The metainformation won't change and if the URN is a unique
>key string, then lets push for the arbitrary opaque-string to be useful so that
>someone can use the document without having the full faith and credit of
>the Internet to support it.

What I think would satisfy your concern is instead of just passing a URN is
to pass a URI/citation/URT record with a URN plus some bits of identifying
metainformatin encoded in some manner. It would be a larger chunk of info
to carry around but I don't think it would be any larger than a regular
footnote would be.

> I'll say it one more time and shut up about it.

Same here. ;-)

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