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 -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Mealling | Vote Libertarian! | urn:pin:1 michael@neonym.net | | http://www.neonym.net