Date: Fri, 29 Apr 1994 19:04:20 +0500
From: dupuy@smarts.com (Alexander Dupuy)
Message-Id: <9404292304.AA03667@brainy.smarts.com>
To: rdaniel@acl.lanl.gov, mitra@pandora.sf.ca.us, peterd@bunyip.com
Subject: Re: Seperating URC format and URN->URC resolution
> No argument from me on this one. I've heard this suggestion
> circulate before and agree that it is a good one. One
> observation - we can make this an _extra_ feature, and for
> those who can't or wont use technique, they can still use
> the simple DNS technique to try.
>
> Now, if there _is_ a TXT record, it might indicate several
> optional servers, it might indicate an optional port
> number for special handling, it might indicate the address
> of a specific publisher agent for this particular user at
> this site and so on, but even without any of this we can make a
> first stab at resolution.
Having it as an optional mechanism certainly seems reasonable enough. If we
have some consensus here, perhaps we could get Mitra to add a paragraph or two
about this in the appropriate draft...
@alex