On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 18:45:00 EDT, Keith Moore said: > All naming systems start with some context; otherwise they'd be trying to > impose a tree structure on the entire universe. restricting DNS URNs > to the real DNS is a reasonable design compromise. Agreed. The part I obviously am unable to get caffeinated enough to understand is what purpose the timestamps serve - there's *no* way to know what the value of turing-police.cc.vt.edu:01July2002 was (don't bother with 'dig', that will get the the IP address of its docking station, which changed recently - the laptop's been seen at lots of different IP addresses). Or is the intent *NOT* to provide something that's resolvable/usable, but to provide an audit trail of "the URN as it resolved at timestamp FOO" (a la the Wayback Machine)? -- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech
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