Date: Sun, 14 Aug 1994 23:21:34 -700 (PST)
From: Mitra <mitra@pandora.sf.ca.us>
To: uri@bunyip.com
Subject: Re: Additional requirements for URCs?
Message-Id: <Pine.SCO.3.89.99.940814231124.4179A-100000@pandora.sf.ca.us>
Re: specifying a condition such as "Its right if it has a checksum of 12345"
What is required is the ability to be able to express concepts in a URC,
for example
URN:foo.bar:ABCDEF
Author: Fred Smith <fred@foo.bar>
Integrity: {
Checksum: 12345
}
Note - I'm not suggesting this is the way to go, only that it should be
expressable within a URC.
The second requirement "a democratic publishing module", is going to be
hard in any kind of hierarchical, decentralised allocation setup. If the
publishing entity has a FQDN its easy. otherwise they are going to have
to have some way of obtaining a publishers id. Maybe we'll see services
that only allocate publisher id's within their own name space, so making
the URN independant of any other service that the publisher may require.
- Mitra