the names of resources

[Robert A. (Bob) Morris]

I've found a very cool page with a quite cogent explanation of the
several internet standards involved with naming and locating resources
on the internet, in distributed databases, etc. etc. I haven't looked
at the author's (Norm Walsh) proposal for dealing with some of the
associated mysteries generically, but his explanation of what those
are is very readable, and he is a well informed fellow at ArborText,
an important player in the distributed documentation world.

It is at
http://www.arbortext.com/Think_Tank/Norm_s_Column/Issue_Three/issue_three.html

Bob Morris

p.s. Norm's column shtick is incidentally interesting to biologists:

Title: Standard Deviation from Norm.
This column: If you can name it, you can claim it.