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

John A. Kunze (jak@violet.berkeley.edu)
Fri, 15 Oct 1993 16:09:36 -0700

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    Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 16:09:36 -0700

    From: jak@violet.berkeley.edu (John A. Kunze)

    Message-Id: <199310152309.QAA07243@violet.berkeley.edu>

    To: uri@bunyip.com

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

> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 12:58:20 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "Rob Raisch, The Internet Company" <raisch@internet.com>
> ...
> What is the difference? I would suggest that, from a completely
> functional standpoint, there is no difference between a URL and a URN, as

The functional difference? I thought you put it quite nicely:

Scenario 1: given a URL, connect, retrieve data, done.
Scenario 2: given a URN, connect, resolve to URL, goto Scenario 1, done.

But I must have missed the point of the question(?).

-John

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