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UNIFORM RESOURCE IDENTIFIERS & THE SIMPLE DISCOVERY PROTOCOL
(LUT CS-TR 985)
Martin Hamilton
Department of Computer Studies,
Loughborough University of Technology,
Ashby Road, Loughborough
Leics. LE11 3TU
Email: martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk
Tel: +44 1509 222799
Fax: +44 1509 265393
Abstract:
With the growth of the Internet as a whole, and the popularity of
the World-Wide Web information system in particular, Uniform
Resource Locators (URLs) have become the de facto standard for
naming on-line resources. The usage of URLs on a large scale has
highlighted their deficiences, and new technologies are being
developed which attempt to address these - notably the Uniform
Resource Name (URN) and Uniform Resource Characteristic (URC). This
report outlines some of the problems with URLs, provides an
introduction to URNs and URCs, and identifies areas where the
approach adopted for the SIMPLE DISCOVERY PROTOCOL may be a
viable solution.
Martin Hamilton
Tue Jun 20 12:43:30 BST 1995