Re: Faster HTTP Was:Re: The Superhighway Steamroller

hallam@dxal18.cern.ch
Sun, 10 Jul 94 15:54:03 +0200

>Perhaps the protocol should only allow URNs that reference immutable
>data, so that you wouldn't have to validate your cache for your accept
>group?

Allow? No!

Encourage - yes!

I think that we should never be dogmatic. In some unusual circumstances it
might be usefull to vary things. I don't think we should be dogmatic.

This is why I disagree with Tim over the news: url. I think it should be
permissable to incorporate the server into the URL. news://dxcern/. Not
because thats a good thing to do in general but 0.1% of the time it might
be very useful indeed.

Phill