# Re: Thumbnail Sketch of the UR* Arena

Mitra (mitra@path.net)
Wed, 27 Oct 1993 20:44:40 PST

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    From: mitra@path.net (Mitra)

    Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 20:44:40 PST

    In-Reply-To:  Peter Deutsch <peterd@bunyip.com>

    To: peterd@bunyip.com, marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu

    Subject: Re: Thumbnail Sketch of the UR* Arena

    Message-Id:  <9310272044.aa04957@pandora.sf.ca.us>

On Oct 27, 3:47pm, Peter Deutsch wrote:
} Just a sidebar - do we actually _need_ a "URN->URL
} protocol"? Certainly, we need a format, but do we need a
} query protocol and all that it implies? Seems that we can
} content ourselves with the equivalent of a MIME type for
} formatting responses and we're done.

No way Peter, if a URN is going to be inside a document then, as a
client designer, I need to know how to resolve it, that measn throwing
it at a resolution service and gettign back a result. That involves a
protocol. The protocol could be really simple, but its a protocol none
the less. Its totally useless if their are some URN->URL resolvers
talking whois++ and others talking modified DNS and others talking some
variant of HTTP.

- Mitra

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