# Re: URN contents

Peter Deutsch (peterd@bunyip.com)
Tue, 25 May 1993 17:06:50 -0400

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    From: Peter Deutsch <peterd@bunyip.com>

    Date: Tue, 25 May 1993 17:06:50 -0400

    In-Reply-To: Peter Svanberg's message as of May 25, 20:32

    To: Peter Svanberg <psv@nada.kth.se>, "Chris Weider" <clw@merit.edu>

    Subject: Re: URN contents

To continue on my URL crusade...

[ You wrote: ]
. . .
> (In URLs, on the other hand, it must - in some way - be possible to
> use *any* character used in a culture if it should have any chance of
> being used - internally - in that culture. I'll return to that.)

Actually, this is an arguement for allowing only the
server which must respond to a URL to generate it, and for
treating it as an opaque 7 bit (no, 8 aiiiieeeeeee! <plop>) string.

I am really starting to think of these things as much like
those Gopher selector strings. Such strings _can_ be file
pathnames, but they could just as easily (to the user) be
randomly generated hash values. I think this is important.

Now, we can have structure to them, but should the user have
to know what it is?

Dunno...

- peterd

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