To: raisch@ora.com
In-Reply-To: raisch@ora.com's message of Wed, 14 Jul 1993 13:55:06 -0700 <93Jul14.135520pdt.2793@golden.parc.xerox.com>
Subject: Re: Registrar & URNs pointing to "current" documents
From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
Message-Id: <93Jul14.140239pdt.2791@golden.parc.xerox.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1993 14:02:38 PDT
Just as there are ISSNs as well as ISBNs, you want to differentiate
the URN for a series (all current and future issues of CACM) from the
URN for any individual in the series.
I think the category of a series/service/mutable thing is different
from either 'this exact article' (of course), but also from 'the
latest version of this article'.
is an example of a NAME of a stream of information. That it's
currently a URL is OK: some URLs might make reasonable URNs too.