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Re: DNS based URI without any set access semantics?

2002-07-25 10:04:17
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 12:07:19PM -0400, Michael Mealling wrote:
| > 
| >   dnsurn://clarkevans.com/2002/my-data-type#my-format
| > 
| > Thus, the scheme follows *exactly* the syntax of HTTP (to keep learning
| > curve down) only that the date is required immediately following the
| > domain name.  The advantage of this over http is that it doesn't look
| > like a duck... "dnsurn" is not "http". 
...

| The URN is of the form: urn:duri:<date>:<encoded-URI>
| 
| urn:duri:2001:http://www.ietf.org
| urn:tdb:20010814142327:file://this.example.com/c|/temp/test.txt
| urn:tdb:2001:data:,The%2520US%2520president

Hmm.  If the above proposal is too "close" to http, then formalizing
java "package" names as URI would be useful...

  package:com.clarkevans.MyDataType

The end goal is (a) to have a DNS based URN and (b) not have this
URN imply any sort of access mechanism (http,https,ftp,news,etc.)

Best,

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