URIs as IDs in ModSAX (was Re: ModSAX (SAX 1.1) Proposal) (fwd)

[David Megginson]

John Cowan writes:

 > >   urn:inet:megginson.com:ns:foo
 > > 
 > > cannot (because there's no standard for what 'inet' means).
 > 
 > Cannot and should not be, because there's no assurance that
 > someone not David may not have megginson.com in the future,
 > and might make conflicting URN assignments.
 > 
 > Spam.org has had four owners that I know of.

But there's also no standard for building URNs on uuids, ISBNs, or
anything else -- there's just no standard, period.


All the best,


David

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           http://www.megginson.com/

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