• To: <s.livingstone@b...>, "'Joshua Allen'" <joshuaa@m...>, "'Mike Champion'" <mc@x...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Un-ask the question (was Re: URIs and Names on the Web)
• From: "Didier PH Martin" <martind@n...>
• Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 08:40:46 -0400
• Importance: Normal
• In-reply-to: <000401c236cf$08320060$dd6f0550@bobo>

Hi Steven,

Steven said:

I am working on something just now that is starting to bring up a lot of
questions like this. 
The easy way to go about it is to just say it is an identifier of
something - plain and simple. But I get the feeling they can be a lot
more useful than that.

Didier replies:
Since the URN name space can be resolved with DNS servers, then if you
query a DSN server for a particular name which is part of a name space
(ex: ISBN name space) then if the DNS server replies that the name space
doesn't exist, you a have a good clue that it is probably a
"non-digital" name space. Otherwise, the DNS server returns one or more
URLs giving you the different location where this resource resides.

Cheers
Didier PH Martin

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