On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 12:07:19PM -0400, Michael Mealling wrote: | > | > dnsurn://clarkevans.com/2002/my-data-type#my-format | > | > Thus, the scheme follows *exactly* the syntax of HTTP (to keep learning | > curve down) only that the date is required immediately following the | > domain name. The advantage of this over http is that it doesn't look | > like a duck... "dnsurn" is not "http". ... | The URN is of the form: urn:duri:<date>:<encoded-URI> | | urn:duri:2001:http://www.ietf.org | urn:tdb:20010814142327:file://this.example.com/c|/temp/test.txt | urn:tdb:2001:data:,The%2520US%2520president Hmm. If the above proposal is too "close" to http, then formalizing java "package" names as URI would be useful... package:com.clarkevans.MyDataType The end goal is (a) to have a DNS based URN and (b) not have this URN imply any sort of access mechanism (http,https,ftp,news,etc.) Best, --- Clark C. Evans Axista, Inc. http://www.axista.com 800.926.5525 XCOLLA Collaborative Project Management Software