We have internally even floated the idea of extending it with one more a
URB for a universial citation identifier. Not very much after that we
will need an URI - Universial Idenditifier for Intellectual Property
clearance, pointing to a master holder of IP-rights...
The URL,URI,URF,URN etc discussion is becoming extremely critical in my
opinion, and its time there is some movement through IETF or other channels..
-Willem.
On Sun, 29 May 1994, Gavin Nicol wrote:
> >Also, what about the Nth occurance instead of the first?
> >Given that you're considering texts of which you are not the author,
> >this might be a really handy addition, eh?
>
> There is another problem too. SGML is inherently structured, and
> current URL's offer no standard sub-document naming method, nor
> support for TOC's etc. I have a short SGML document describing a
> scheme that overcomes the problems (in the short term at least). If
> anyone is interested, let me know. If sufficinet interest is shown,
> I'll post it to the list. The basic idea is simply to do this:
>
> http://book/chapter=2/section=1/para=5
>
> but there are other ideas in the paper as well (like named TOC's etc.)
>
>
> nick
>