Actually, the use of a DN instead of a URL is a much better approach.
1) URL's are relative ... it depends on what the web server name resolves to.
2) the move over the next few years will be toward URN's. These are
independent of DNS resolvers. They provide location and replication
transparency (among other things).
3) the more general of a URI capability that is supported, the less
constrained we are to the technology.
Ken.
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Kenneth E. Rowe (kerowe(_at_)ncsa(_dot_)uiuc(_dot_)edu)
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/ Security Coordinator (217) 244-0710 (NCSA IRST)
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
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