Re: URLs, URIs, and references

[Dirk Herr-Hoyman <[e-mail]>]

Date: Wed, 26 May 93 10:11:30 -0400
From: "Chris Weider" <[e-mail]>

> 	URL -> Metainformation mapping.
> 	  Crucial in my model, where all the typing of resources, format
> 	  negotiation, etc, is done with the URL and not with the URN.
> 	

Chris, could you flush this idea out a bit.  I've read the "vision thing" that  
you are Peter put together  
(ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/interner-drafts/draft-ietf-iiir-vision-00.txt)  
which I thought I understood, but I'm not sure how this fits in.  Also, we  
need to consider that the meta-information may well be stored outside the  
resource, especially in bibliographic databases.  When this occurs, I don't  
see how having a URL for the resource lets you get at the meta-information.

No doubt you have thought these things thru, so I'd appreciate hearing your  
deepest, innermost, cocktail napkin thoughts.

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