Message-Id: <199602071608.KAA00640@library.wustl.edu> Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 09:53:09 -0600 From: Heath Rezabek <mailto:hrezabek@FIAT.GSLIS.UTEXAS.EDU> Subject: Re: Re[3]: URLs To: Multiple recipients of list WEBCAT-L <mailto:WEBCAT-L@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU>
On Wed, 7 Feb 1996, Peter Graham, RUL wrote:> 2) URNs, by definition, don't change; so there's not an issue as there is
> for URLs of "keeping track". However URNs aren't implemented yet, and PURLs
> are.
For what it's worth, when I spoke with Stuart Weibel at the ALA Midwinter Conf [Stu is with OCLC; worked on the OCLC/NCSA Metadata Workshop, the Dublin Core project & the PURL project] emphasized the need to do whatever can be done within existing standards, rather than *either* making up new ones on the fly [Netscape & Friends] OR doing *nothing* until current proposals are honed to utter perfection [which some feel IETF & others are a little prone to doing]. The PURL scheme was devised with this in mind, apparently.
Heath M Rezabek mailto:hrezabek@gslis.utexas.edu http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~hrezabek/index.html GSLIS Masters Candidate University of Texas at Austin Technical Staff Assistant Perry-Castaneda Library EIC