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Didier PH Martin wrote: > >Didier says: >There is a project called PURL (permanent URL) that uses URL to create >permanent names. However, if we overload locators (URL) to do everything >even the morning coffee, we'll have some confusion. Its like have a single >word to designate everything. This is why we created URN. To distinguish >names (URN) form locators (URL). YOu are right to say that on some browser, >we can implement a name resolver as a protocol handler. But this is caused >by these browsers architecture not by the URN scheme being perceived as a >URL. > Let me get this straight .... *you are* suggesting a mechanism to allow resolution of "urn:...." into a resource, no? Isn't a URI which locates resources a URL (by definition) regardless of the scheme? You are suggesting using the "urn" scheme to locate resources, correct? using some extension to DNS, correct? This is a protocol, no? Jonathan Borden http://jabr.ne.mediaone.net xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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