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Re: Embedded secure URLs

1995-10-03 15:03:00
On Mon, 2 Oct 1995 Jueneman(_at_)gte(_dot_)com wrote:

(I'd really prefer an X.500 solution, where instead of a URL there would be a
distinguished name of the document. That way, when someone decides to take
down one file server and move all of the document somewhere else, users
wouldn't be left with a bunch of useless, dangling URLs. But I'm not holding
my breath.)

I can't conceive of why you think that Distinguished Names would be more
stable than Domain Names, which I assume is what prompted the above.

Bob

Robert R. Jueneman
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