From: mitra@path.net (Mitra)
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 23:17:47 PDT
In-Reply-To: Peter Deutsch <peterd@bunyip.com>
To: peterd@bunyip.com, uri@bunyip.com
Subject: Re: Thumbnail Sketch of the UR* Arena
Message-Id: <9310262317.aa04093@pandora.sf.ca.us>
Peter,
Without type information, its not much good putting a URN in a pointer.
Because unless something will tell me what type of object it is, then
I dont know whether to pass it to "xv" or "less".
Some protocols - e.g. Gopher, already pass the type information around,
and they could start using URL's immediately, but others arent
going to be able to handle URN's on their own.
- Mitra