X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,3ad86af4a00a01fe X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-08 19:48:38 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!newsgate.cistron.nl!amsnews01.chello.com!nlnews00.chello.com.POSTED!tanya. From: ppunk@chello.balls.nl (Donderfliegen) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Joris and Sandra 3 Organization: Total Disorganisation Message-ID: <5bt41u4qmv1pnfv2870ds7csb15uqldi12@4ax.com> References: <3C0A19E9.22D3C596@hotmail.com> <3C0B6A2B.E58C7073@xs4all.nl> <3C0D7903.BB97B0FF@xs4all.nl> <3c0e99ef$0$7909$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk> <2001-12-06_09.11.03@alfie.ist.org> <2001-12-08_04.13.51@alfie.ist.org> <6ug06l64on.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.168.0.123 X-Original-Trace: 8 Dec 2001 21:45:18 +0100, 192.168.0.123 Lines: 59 X-Authenticated-User: donderfliegen Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 22:14:07 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.93.74.225 X-Complaints-To: abuse@chello.nl X-Trace: nlnews00.chello.com 1007849647 213.93.74.225 (Sat, 08 Dec 2001 21:14:07 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 21:14:07 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:12312 On 08 Dec 2001 17:46:00 +0100, Neil Franklin provoked the following text: >UR* Terms > >The basic picture, specified in section 1.2. URI, URL, and URN of >RFC 2396, looks like this: > > _______________________________________________________ > | ________________ | > | | ftp: | | > | | gopher: | | > | | http: __|____________ | > | | etc | | urn: | | > | |_____________|__| | | > | URLs | | | > | |_______________| | > | URNs | > |_______________________________________________________| > URIs > >URI > Uniform Resource Identifier. The generic set of all names/addresses > that are short strings that refer to resources. I already suspected something like that, but i wasn't sure where t get the info on this. Thanks for enhancing my knowledge! >URL > Uniform Resource Locator. An informal term (no longer used in > technical specifications) associated with popular URI schemes: > http, ftp, mailto, etc. Knew that! :-) >URN > Uniform Resource Name. > 1.An URI that has an institutional commitment to persistence, > availability, etc. Note that this sort of URI may also be a > URL. See, for example, PURLs. > 2.A particular scheme, urn:, specified by RFC2141 and related > documents, intended to serve as persistent, location-independent, > resource identifiers. >------------------------ > >I doubt strongly, that Donderfliegen will be satisfied with an URN, as >any normal publicly used browser can not use them. So he really needs >an URL. Makes me wonder what an URN would look like... If i understand correctly, an IP address is an URN too, or am i way off here? -- __ ___ / ) _/_ _(_ /'_ _ _ /(_/()/)(/(-/ / (/(-(/(-/) _/ Castrate me to reply by e-mail All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -- E. Rutherford