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- Excerpts from ext.WorldWideWeb: 13-Apr-93 Re: Project Gutenberg's Rog..
- Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl (1150)
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- > I see a problem coming here: how does an unreplicated document (say my
- > own home page) make a reference to such a replicated document? If I
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- We're trying out a system at PARC that has a similar problem. Our
- tentative solution, translated to URL terms, is that one particular
- scheme of URL is a list of URL's, any of which can be used to access the
- document. This would allow the client to use whichever copy of the
- document it ``decides'' is closest/cheapest. We also have different URL
- schemes that allow us to say, ``look up this UID in a name-service of
- this type'' -- indirection.
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- Bill
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