URI and Information Retrieval

This page contains old papers from my work with URI's, including some very early proposals for URLs.

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• One of the first URL discussions - Oct 21, 1991
• URN to URC scenario document
  An expired Internet Draft on scenarios for resolving URN's to URC's.
• Oct 94 URN draft
• URN proposal
  An expired Internet Draft of a scheme for URNs
• Integrated Internet Information Architecture paper
  Presented to the Internet Architecture Board - October 94
• And this link to the URL mailing list 1993-1996
  where the architects of the net (including Tim Berners Lee, Marc Andreeson and Mitra) figured out how to do URLs and tried to do URNs. (zip)