Re: [URN] Re: Relative URLs and URNs

"Ron Daniel Jr." <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.url
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thus spoke omar syed (at least at 10:58 AM 2/3/97 -0500)

>To resolve a URN to a location, resource or citation, a client
>always needs to consult a remote resolver and pass it the
>complete URN or partially processed URN.  Is this not always true?

Always? No. A client may have an internal namespace, such as
"about:" that it never sends to a remote resolver.

Most of the time? Yes.


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