Public Identifiers

[Steven R. Newcomb]

Many thanks for the extremely helpful note!

[Jerome McDonough:]

> The URN working group of the IETF is working on an Internet Draft
> addressing the issue of how name assignment authorities are registered
> (or not).  Quoting from the draft: "In a nutshell, a template for
> the definition of the namespace is completed for deposit with IANA,
> and a NID (namespace identifier) is assigned."  The draft contemplates 
> three levels of name spaces: experimental, informal, and formal.
> Experimental are not explicitly registered with IANA, and take
> the form of x-<NID>; no provision is made for avoiding collision
> of experimental NIDs.

Do you think I would be correct in assuming that I could use the
above-described x-<NID> form to assign the "1922 Sears Farm Catalog"
to a namespace I invent that I could call, in effect, "Sears, Roebuck
& Co."?

-Steve

--
Steven R. Newcomb, President, TechnoTeacher, Inc.
srn at techno.com  http://www.techno.com  ftp.techno.com

voice: +1 972 231 4098 (at ISOGEN: +1 214 953 0004 x137)
fax    +1 972 994 0087 (at ISOGEN: +1 214 953 3152)

3615 Tanner Lane
Richardson, Texas 75082-2618 USA

xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev at ic.ac.uk
Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/
To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo at ic.ac.uk the following message;
(un)subscribe xml-dev
To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo at ic.ac.uk the following message;
subscribe xml-dev-digest
List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa at ic.ac.uk)