Message-Id: <9305192332.AA13756@expresso.bunyip.com>
From: Peter Deutsch <peterd@bunyip.com>
Date: Wed, 19 May 1993 19:32:36 -0400
In-Reply-To: Karen R. Sollins's message as of May 19, 17:05
To: Karen R. Sollins <sollins@lcs.mit.edu>, clw@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Comments on URN ID
[ You wrote: ]
> Chris (and Peter and everyone else):
> I strongly agree with the position you took in the URN draft document,
> with respect to content in the names. If URNs are to be useful for
> decades (I often try to think in terms of one or more centuries) . . .
Karen, you sound more like a librarian than a computer
scientist!! Most CS people seem to think primarily in
terms of months (or is it semesters and academic years?? ;-)
BTWm I hope this posting serves to quash rumours that Alan
and I died in that last Montreal blizzard in mid-April (!!!)
(and yes, we did consider moving the whole operation to
California at that point). I'm faithfully piling up the
URL and URN threads, but both Alan and I are up to our
eyeballs in finishing off a major development project
(which among other things will give us the follow-on to
archie, the long-promised release of WHOIS++, and few other
kitchen sinks as well). Once things stabilize a bit I'm
diving back in. Meanwhile, I'm still lurking...
- peterd
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