Re: [URN] Re: Relative URLs and URNs

At 11:39 AM 1/31/97 -0600, Daniel LaLiberte wrote:
>Ryan Moats writes:
> > Just to make everyting clear, if the client does not understand the
> > namespace, should treat the NSS as an opaque string, yes? (At least,
> > I certainly hope so...)
>
>Nothing else makes sense.
>But maybe such a client should commit suicide. :-)

Whaa???

It seems to me that 1630 and other documents argue just the opposite -
that the semantics of '/', '#', ... are set so that clients can
slice and dice the URIs even if they don't know the scheme or
namespace. More importantly, the same slicing and dicing code can be
used across several known schemes.

>As a general rule, for scalability in a world where clients far
>out-number the servers, the clients or servers near the clients should
>be doing most of the work.

I'll certainly agree with that.


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