On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 12:07:19PM -0400, Michael Mealling wrote: | > | > dnsurn://clarkevans.com/2002/my-data-type#my-format | > | | It sounds like you want the 'duri' namespace currently going through the | process. It was written by Larry Masinter and is currently here: | | http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-masinter-dated-uri-03.txt | | The URN is of the form: urn:duri:<date>:<encoded-URI> Thanks Michael. This looks a bit too noisy for me; I'm just looking for something that I can replace "http" with no other changes to that the duck stops quacking. This proposal is very noisy and probably woudn't be adopted by XMLers or YAMLers. Further, the / is reserved within URNs and thus would need to be escaped no? | 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 Also, the date is the least important part (this can be removed from the proposal). I'm just looking for something which allows for absolute http uris (with fragments) to be used excepting "http" is replaced by something else so that the unique identifier can be used without bringing along the http semantics. Lastly, since http occurs within urn:duri:2002:http://yaml.org/somewhere, this doesn't solve my "urn without semantics" issue since the http is still there. Hmms. Clark -- Clark C. Evans Axista, Inc. http://www.axista.com 800.926.5525 XCOLLA Collaborative Project Management Software