Uniform Resource Identifiers the Simple Discovery Protocol 1995 3 citations ? 2 self

Abstract:  With the growth of the Internet as a whole, and the popularity of the World-Wide Web information system in particular, Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) have become the de facto standard for naming on-line resources. The usage of URLs on a large scale has highlighted their deficiences, and new technologies are being developed which attempt to address these - notably the Uniform Resource Name (URN) and Uniform Resource Characteristic (URC). This report outlines some of the problems with URLs, provides an introduction to URNs and URCs, and identifies areas where the approach adopted for the Simple Discovery Protocol may be a viable solution. 1 Preamble It is assumed that the reader is already familiar with the Internet, Uniform Resource Locators[1], and the World-Wide Web. There are now a large number of elementary texts which introduce these concepts, for example[2]. This report discusses problems arising from the current usage of URLs on the Internet, and introduces some possible so...