These are formalization of the addressing
used by existing protocols which
are important in the network information
retrieval world.
- FTP
- the Internet File Transfer Protocol
- Message identifiers
- Mail messages
have unique names.
- Usenet news
- Running over the Internet,
usenet news articles are transferred
with the network News Transfer Protocol.
- Gopher
- A popular CWIS protocol
- WAIS
- Naming Databases and documents
- HTTP
- Hypertext Transfer protocol
is WWW's "native" protocol.
(up to Naming and Addressing)
Tim BL