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Re: URI intents? (was: RDDL: Negotiate out the Noise)

• To: Jonathan Borden <jborden@m...>
• Subject: Re: URI intents? (was: RDDL: Negotiate out the Noise)
• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 21:29:17 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: Jeff Lowery <jlowery@s...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <028a01c1a072$a1c85060$0a2e249b@n...> from Jonathan Borden at"Jan 18, 2002 05:51:14 pm"

Jonathan Borden scripsit:

> Maybe the only URIs that are not intended to be resolved are those that are
> not associated with a network protocol. I thought the URI scheme "urn" was
> for that, but people have created protocols to resolve "urn:"s so this isn't
> necessarily true.

No, indeed.  The point of URNs (meaning URIs beginning "urn:") is not
that they can't be resolved, but that they aren't bound to a specific
use of some specific protocol.  An urn:isbn: URI probably can't be
resolved, unless the book is an electronic one; OTOH, an
urn:newsml:reutershealth.com URN definitely can be, though we don't
currently provide a publicly accessible URN resolver.

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