# Re: Seattle minutes

Keith Moore (moore@cs.utk.edu)
Thu, 07 Apr 1994 16:33:48 -0400

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

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

    Subject: Re: Seattle minutes

    In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Apr 1994 13:53:29 EDT."

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    Date: Thu, 07 Apr 1994 16:33:48 -0400

> > Peter --
> > I agree that the hard part of doing URN->URL translation is not in
> > defining the protocol. I personally don't think it's very difficult
> > to find an appropriate server, so long as we can use DNS as a starting
> > point.
>
> But as long as we aren't _forced_ to use DNS in order for things to work.
> I'd hate for this system to only be able to work on TCP/IP networks.
> So far there's nothing keeping someone from specifying a URL for a
> resource on an IPX or BITNET network.

...just as there's nothing keeping people from using domain names on
such networks. No, you aren't forced to use DNS with URNs, but an Internet
Standard process for doing URN->whatever lookups will probably use
a mechanism that is specific to the Internet.

Keith

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