BJ> Anyway, the whole point of this note was to mention that
BJ> release 1.7 of ILU supports URLs. That is, the name of an ILU
BJ> object can be expressed either as a ``string binding handle'',
BJ> which has the form
BJ> "<instance-handle>@<server-ID>@<location-info>", or as a URL,
BJ> which has the form
BJ> "ilu:/<location-info>|<type-info>/<instance-handle>@<server-ID>". For
BJ> more ILU info, see ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/ilu/ilu.html.
You might be interested in some of the work that CNRI is doing on
Handles and the Handle Management System. Handles are essentially
location independent identifiers for digital objects. Poke around on
or web server (see X-WWW-Homepage above) under the CSTR project for
details.
-Barry