Universal Resource Names

This is a page of links to info on URNs and name resolution. There is close relationships with URLs and URCs. The general grouping of these issues is called Universal Resource Identifiers (URI).

There are several developments recently not reported here.

IETF URI Working Group
Uniform Resource Identifiers (uri) Charter including all drafts and RFCs.
UR* and The Names and Addresses of WWW objects
Naming -- /DesignIssues Tim BL explains how names are like addresses.
Uniform Resource Identifiers by Ron Daniel
The ResInfo Project by Jared Rhine is an effort to design and implement an architecture suitable for use in solving a variety of problems commonly experienced by modern distributed information systems. (So this belongs elsewhere.)
cgi-bbcurn - Simulate URNs with a HTTP/1.0 redirect
Naming - a collection of links by Gordon Irlam
URNs by Mitra, Weider, Mealing
Archive of URC, URN, and whois++ software
A Bibliography of Sources on URI, URC, URN, and related topics
ANSA Naming
Rob van der Linden, "The ANSA Naming Model" (APM.1003.01)
XFN
LIFNs and Bulk File Distribution
Handles
Path URNs
Saint Joseph's College URRRP Project Homepage
Stable Network File URLs as a Mechanism for Uniform Naming by Terry Winograd
Resource Discovery and Reliable Links
Yeo, A.K., Ananda, A.L., Koh, E.K., "A Taxonomy of issues in Name Systems Design and Implementation" Operating Systems Review, July 1993, pp4-18.
Uniform Resource Names, A Progress Report by Bill Arms and the URN implementors.
Uniform Resource Names by Ron Daniel describes more recent work.

I am interested in DNS and what problems it is having. I expect that there will be several orders of magnitude more URNs than domains, so any problems DNS has will surely arise for URNs unless we stear clear of them.

Daniel LaLiberte (liberte@ncsa.uiuc.edu)

Last modified: Mon May 12 11:44:36 CDT 1997

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