# Re: Finding URN->URL servers

John Curran (jcurran@nic.near.net)
Mon, 21 Feb 1994 22:32:40 -0500

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    To: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>

    Subject: Re: Finding URN->URL servers

    In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 21 Feb 1994 16:25:30 -0500.

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    Date: Mon, 21 Feb 1994 22:32:40 -0500

    From: John Curran <jcurran@nic.near.net>

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] From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
] Subject: Re: Finding URN->URL servers
] Date: Mon, 21 Feb 1994 16:25:30 -0500
] ...
] Of course it's not immune. But presumably we know better this time, and can
] take more care in assigning names within the URN domain space. Also,
] extensions to DNS have been proposed to do incremental updating of zone
] information. Using a different root domain for URNs would buy us some time
] until the incremental updating is in place.

Keith,
Is there a particular reason to jump at the use of DNS as a URN->URL
resolution mechanism? I have no problem with using DNS to find such
servers, but think that it's hasty to select DNS as the right mechanism
for URN->URL mapping until we know what properties the resolution server
should have.

/John

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