entity-resolution message

Subject: Re: Catalog requirements

From: Terry Allen <tallen@sonic.net>
To: entity-resolution@lists.oasis-open.org, ndw@nwalsh.com
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 15:25:38 -0800

| | |    * The catalog must provide the ability to map public identifiers to
| | |      URIs.
| | 
| | Both to URLs and to URNs (passim).
| 
| URI covers both, doesn't it?

I don't want to open the door to a proposal that allows mapping only
to URLs but satisfies a requirement to "provide the ability to map to URIs".
"URI" is a mischievous coinage, and I eye its usage warily ...

regards, Terry