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"William Y. Arms" writes:
| The handle system is used for DOIs. It is a trivial change to have the
| browsers also recognize strings that begin "doi:" or indeed "urn:".
Something else to bear in mind, but nothing (directly) to do with
Dublin Core - Netscape (at least, possibly Internet Exploder too, I've
not checked) has for some time used the HTTP proxy server (if
configured) to deal with requests for URNs.
The popular Squid proxy/cache server (<URL:http://squid.nlanr.net/>),
in its latest version (1.2 beta), now has support for doing things
at its end when people request "URLs" which begin with "urn:".
Now, we're just in the process of upgrading the servers that run the
JANET WWW cache service to use Squid 1.2. Request rates are getting
to be around 9 million proxy HTTP requests a day, so this could be
quite a neat way to experiment with URN deployment... That's quite a
large installed based that doesn't require any software mods.
Ciao!
Martin
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