From: Martin Hamilton <M.T.Hamilton@lut.ac.uk>
Message-Id: <199402162110.VAA08691@lust.mrrl.lut.ac.uk>
Subject: Finding URN->URL servers
To: uri@bunyip.com
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 21:10:04 +0000 (GMT)
How about if we take a leaf from Netfind, and use DNS TXT records (or
a to-be-defined Uniform Resource Record :-) to hold the URLs of servers
willing to resolve URNs, e.g.
foo IN TXT "http://www.xyz.com/cgi-bin/urn-to-url/"
IN TXT "gopher://gopher.xyz.com/7/conv/urn-lookup"
This assumes a URN with (at least!) two components - one which is
eventually mapped to a domain (cf. foo above), and one which is
passed to whatever server your client thinks it can talk to!
Any takers?
Martin