# Re: caching

Michael Mealling (ccoprmm@oit.gatech.edu)
Thu, 17 Feb 94 9:41:17 EST

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

    Message-Id: <199402171441.AA06717@oit.gatech.edu>

    Subject: Re: caching

    To: randy@psg.com (Randy Bush)

    Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 9:41:17 EST

    In-Reply-To: <m0pWvrc-000306C@rip.psg.com>; from "Randy Bush" at Feb 16, 94 3:41 pm

Randy Bush said this:
> > Can someone please argue for why we should have some support for caching
> > in the URN functional spec
>
> The underlying issue is fairly deep and we keep mushing around it without
> being explicit. What is named?

An object.

> A stable object, or a way to get something
> which may differ from request to request?

Whether it's stable or not will depend on each occurrence and therefore
can't be made a specification of the whole entity. The name itself
is stable because it's immutable. The object itself can be mutabble
subject to the whims of the author/publisher.

-MM

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