Deploying URNs
Problem
Today's browsers can't process URNs, such as:
Possible Solution
- A separate program could resolve URNs into URLs
- Andy Powell (UKOLN) has demonstrated use of Netscape's autoproxy to pass on URNs of the format above to Squid for resolution [1]
- Example of use of an intermediary to deploy new technologies not supported by current browsers
[1] "Resolving DOI Based URNs Using Squid" at http://mirrored.ukoln.ac.uk/lis-journals/ dlib/dlib/dlib/june98/06powell.html