Re: [URN] Re: Relative URLs and URNs

Thus spoke Gregory J. Woodhouse:
>If there are
>no relative URNs, many (most?) people will not use URNs because they will
>be unable to develop web sites off-line (meaning off the production server,
>not disconnected).

I don't think that is quite true. Since the URN doesn't contain
resolution system info, they get resolved through the use of a
database that can map the URN to a URL, set of URLs, metadata,
or the resource itself. People using URNs to refer to a connected
set of resources will do their testing by having a set of URLs in
the resolver database that point to the test environment. Once
they are ready to go, they change those URLs to the production
machine.



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