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  7. Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 20:42:25 -0700 (PDT)
  8. From: Terry Allen <tallen@fsc.fujitsu.com>
  9. Message-Id: <199610110342.UAA10936@ishtar.fsc.fujitsu.com>
  10. To: masinter@parc.xerox.com, rdaniel@acl.lanl.gov
  11. Cc: michaelm@internic.net, urn-ietf@bunyip.com
  12. Subject: Re: [URN] advantages of NAPTR over PURLs
  13. Sender: owner-urn-ietf@services.bunyip.com
  14. Precedence: bulk
  15. Reply-To: Terry Allen <tallen@fsc.fujitsu.com>
  16. Errors-To: owner-urn-ietf@bunyip.com
  17. Larry: 
  18.  
  19. | NAPTR suddenly
  20. | intertwines name resolution with one of the most obscure parts of the
  21. | Internet infrastructure.
  22.  
  23. Only *one means* of URN (not URL) resolution.  NAPTR is not obviously
  24. the one shiningly best means of URN resolution, but PURLs very obviously
  25. are not (if, for example, you have a business disagreement with OCLC).
  26. I don't *have* to use NAPTR to resolve URNs, and in a well developed
  27. landscape I'll have other choices.  Some URNs may never be resolved
  28. through NAPTR.
  29.  
  30. But with PURLs I'm chained to purl.org.  
  31.  
  32.  
  33. Regards,
  34.     Terry Allen    Fujitsu Software Corp.    tallen@fsc.fujitsu.com
  35. "In going on with these experiments, how many pretty systems do we build,
  36.  which we soon find outselves obliged to destroy?" - Benjamin Franklin
  37.   A Davenport Group Sponsor:  http://www.ora.com/davenport/index.html