# Re: The URN: wrapper and URLs... (

Michael Mealling (ccoprmm@oit.gatech.edu)
Fri, 8 Oct 93 14:06:46 EDT

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

    Message-Id: <199310081806.AA15213@oit.oit.gatech.edu>

    Subject: Re: The URN: wrapper and URLs... (

    To: uri@bunyip.com

    Date: Fri, 8 Oct 93 14:06:46 EDT

Tim Berners-Lee said this:
> You can tell a URN because it begins with URN:
>
> URLs beigin with something else.

But what happens when we end up with other URblats? How will we end up
being able to tell the difference between them? If we go with UR*: as
a wrapper wouldn't it be at least logically consistant to use
URL: as well?

> FPIs (ISO formal public identifiers) may end up
> inside URN: or as a fpi:
>
> Of couse there is no FPI look up so it's not an interesting
> point yet.

There is no URN lookup either but that sure is an interesting point....;-)

-MM

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