For example

A document MYDOC is provided on an FTP site. The details of the site are stored in a forwarding document. The user starts with the UDI http://argo.upenn.edu/1723576123 or dip{ host:argo.upenn.edu token:1723576123 } which it uses to access the argo server. The server returns a document containing the access details for the document itself: ftp{ host:asghd.sdf.edu port#21 path:/pub/junk/dpc/x.ps } This is simplified (and may be wrong - Tim) but shows the difference between the W3 model in which the server would return a pointer to the FTP document as another UDI, allowing the user to make links directly to file://asghd.sdf.edu:21/pub/junk/dpc/x.ps