Message-Id: <9410071339.AA11606@expresso.bunyip.com>
From: Peter Deutsch <peterd@bunyip.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 09:38:58 -0400
In-Reply-To: Larry Masinter's message as of Oct 6, 23:54
To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>, rtor@ansa.co.uk
Subject: Re: No "TOP" of the docuverse [Was: URC usage scenarios ]
[ Larry Masinter wrote: ]
> Most discussions about URNs seem to also leave out another important
> constraint: that URNs have a longer lifetime than the publisher/host
> that originated them. I think it's important that the Name->Address
> resolution system allow for the possibility that institutions
> disappear as well as split, merge, spin of sub-components.
>
> Systems that are based on looking up the DNS of the 'original
> publishing host' will fail because most DNS names disappear or get
> reassigned over time.
Hear! Hear! That's why the DNS-based proposals make me
nervous. I think we're in effect trying to hardwire in a
URL for resolution into the URN. In some cases this will
be practical. In others, it will come back to bite us...
- peterd
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...
"It's a -. Shall I tell him?" he asked, looking at Bill. Bill nodded, and
the Penguin leaned across to Bunyip Bluegum and said in a low voice,
"It's a Magic Puddin'."
...
"that's where the Magic comes in," explained Bill. "The more you eat the more
you gets. Cut-an'-come-again is his name, an' cut, an' come again, is his
nature. Me and Sam has been eating away at this Puddin' for years, and
there's not a mark on him."
"The Magic Pudding", by Norman Lindsay
Sounds like a pretty good analogy for the Internet to me
(and yes, that's where we got the name "Bunyip"...)
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