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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: URIs and Names on the Web
 Hi Jonathan, Jonathan said: The fact that servers go down, and DNS entries change owners over time, are well known problems with HTTP and the current Web. URNs, which don't have any real infrastructure, aren't a solution to this problem. Perhaps someday someone will put up a new infrastructure which allows people to use URNs in a reasonable fashion. When that day comes, we would be able to debate whether or not it was better than HTTP. In the meantime we can try to make HTTP systems as robust as possible. Heck, they are already a whole lot more robust than anyone would have ever predicated. Credit to HTTP. Didier replies: In fact, what is missing is the client part since the name resolution can occur on DNS servers. Thus the actual infrastructure is already there. Yes an other part is missing: the headends. We need headends like the ones we already have for domain names. Instead of domain name registration entities we would have name space registration entities. So what is missing is: a) name space headends. b) clients supporting the URN queries (i.e. DNS queries for URN resolution). To start a name space registration organism (i.e. a DNS headend) is not a big deal but to get the user agents to support URNs holds in the hands of Microsoft and to a least extent in the hands of Mozilla organization. And to move a monopoly having nearly no competition is a big deal. Cheers Didier PH Martin 
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