# Re: FTP URL mapping

Peter Deutsch (peterd@bunyip.com)
Thu, 3 Mar 1994 15:30:45 -0500

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    From: Peter Deutsch <peterd@bunyip.com>

    Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 15:30:45 -0500

    In-Reply-To: Alexander Dupuy's message as of Mar  3, 13:33

    To: dupuy@smarts.com (Alexander Dupuy), hallam@alws.cern.ch, moore@cs.utk.edu

    Subject: Re: FTP URL mapping

[ You wrote: ]
. . .
> > Now imagine md2.sol.moon suffers some catastrophe or is upgraded
> > to a VMS system. We do not want the code link to change.
>
> While this might be a desirable feature, I'm not sure it's feasible. Using
> this URL via "CD security/moonbase" for Unix, but "CD [security.moonbase]" for
> VMS, and "CD security\moonbase" for Windows NT, and N other variants for other
> operating systems is adding too much complexity.

Put another way, we'd be solving the problem in the wrong
place. Sorting out peculiarities of multiple access
methods sounds like a job for a URN to me. This could
reference the UNIX file today, the VMS one tomorrow, etc
and the underlying URN remains unchanged.

- peterd

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