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. Best, Clark -- Clark C. Evans Axista, Inc. http://www.axista.com 800.926.5525 XCOLLA Collaborative Project Management Software