Re: Catalog requirements

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

Norman Walsh wrote:

> That's very noble, and I offer my wholehearted support. But I also
> think we need to be practical.

	"We'll argue that point," said Jack.
		-- Frederick Marryat, _Mr. Midshipman Easy_

> CONNEG?

"Content negotiation", the mechanism for a client to ask a server (or in this
case a resolver) for resource R cast to type T (e.g. "http://www.w3.org"
in XHTML-1.1 format, or in Japanese, or whatever).  The server responds with the
reformatted resource if possible, or if not, a list of the types T1, T2, T3, ...
which it has available.  The client may then re-request or give up.

> | Both to URLs and to URNs (passim).
> 
> URI covers both, doesn't it?

Yes:  <!ENTITY URI "URL or URN">

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