Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1993 06:53:27 PDT
From: brucem@cinops.xerox.com (Bruce Mackey)
Message-Id: <9310201353.AA12171@dnsmaster.cinops.Xerox.COM>
To: uri@bunyip.com
Subject: Re: URNs and Meta-Information
>From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@www3.cern.ch>
> We define an abstract namespace.
> We note that currently, DNS could help implement a lookup
> mechansim for it.
> We implement a DNS version
> Later, maybe we implement a different lookup system.
> The abstract name space doesn't change.
>
> For example, why not make subtree of DNS for finding
> ISO public identifiers?
>
> Tim
I've been hearing a while about how DNS _could_ do the URN work, but
from my conversations with the DNS WG in Columbus they were opposed to
using DNS and bind for anything but DNS. Has this changed? Has the
recent scheme been discussed with the DNS folks?
-Bruce