From: p2p-hackers@zgp.org (Aaron Swartz)
Replying To: Gordon Mohr <p2p-hackers@zgp.org>
Date: Tue Jul 16 08:07:01 2002
Subject: [p2p-hackers] Everything as a file in p2p

On Tuesday, July 16, 2002, at 02:53  AM, Gordon Mohr wrote:
> I think someone should generalize the freenet:KSK approach to
> be a real URN type, independent of any one P2P system, so that
> even if Freenet goes nowhere, this concept lives & grows on
> its own as it deserves to.
>
> Or is there already such an URN type? I haven't run across one
> yet.

This sounds something like the ESL proposal.  It seems silly to abstract 
things like this because, unlike DNS, there is no central registry for 
KAUs. I doubt IANA would be eager to start one. It would be far simpler 
to have each KAU register their own scheme.

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-
interest/2001Sep/att-0067/01-draft-palmer-esl-uri-00.txt 

There are some obvious mistakes in this draft  (encoding whitespace) but 
I don't think anyone was really willing to push the scheme thru any 
further.
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