On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 03:29:33PM -0400, Clark C . Evans wrote:
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 01:35:08PM -0400, Keith Moore wrote:
| ick. please don't embed URIs in URNs. that will just tempt people
| to use the embedded URIs and not treat them as URNs.
I'm not set at all on using URIsh syntax. I just thought
it'd be the easiest approach.
| I can see wanting to have a URN that's based on DNS, but there shouldn't
| be any expectation that you can derive a URI from the URN just by
| modifying the syntax. that defeats the whole purpose.
Great. So, should this thingy be a URN NID? How about using
reverse DNS, aka Java package names?
urn:dns:com.clarkevans:MyPackage
Where the first three components are always small caps.
The problem is that URNs are required to be non-reasignable. So if
the part between the second and third colons is based off of a domain-name
then you will have to timestamp it somehow.
-MM
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