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To: jak@violet.berkeley.edu (John A. Kunze)
From: "Fred Swartz" <fred.swartz@umich.edu>
Subject: Re: what good is a URL without type information?
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 25 Oct 1993 11:39:50 PDT."
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Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1993 17:11:48 -0400
> From: jak@violet.berkeley.edu (John A. Kunze)
> To: jcurran@nic.near.net, masinter@parc.xerox.com
>> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1993 01:17:20 -0400
>> From: John Curran <jcurran@nic.near.net>
>>
>> Practically speaking, there's little gained and significant functionality
>> lost by not including "type" information in URLs.
>
>The problem is the entire UR* architecture implodes.
>
>This in no way minimizes the importance of "type" discrimination,
>which I think we all agree is a very high priority.
To avoid the extra overhead for URN->URL mapping, caching URLs with
URNs was proposed. Aside from certain problems this may create,
would the caching of TYPE along with the URL be a sufficient
improvement. It certainly wouldn't help those applications that
start with URLs, but might for those using URNs.
-- Fred