Engineering a Global Resolution Service
Many different types of names used in network applications have limitations that make them unsuitable for a long-lived global infrastructure. The World Wide Web, held together by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)[1], accentuates this problem. Uniform Resource Names (URNs), longlived, globally unique identifiers, offer a solution to this problem by adding a layer of indirection. A system is needed to resolve URNs into a lower level of information, such as URLs.