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RE: URN vs URL


uri vs url
At 8:33 pm +0200 30/7/03, Julian Reschke wrote:
> > I tried "asking the internet", but a search for 'URN + assignment' on
>> google provides precious little information, aside from references to
>> the present, lightly populated "registry" and a flurry of papers and
>> documents dating from 1994-5 (have URNs simply gone out of fashion? :-).
>
>http://uri.net

Err, three of the four links under the URN section are 404s - are you
trying to prove my assertion? ;-)

>
>> The apparent process for requesting the assignment of a "top level" URN
>> domain (or 'NID') appears way too heavyweight for most everyday uses, and
>> delegation to lower level naming authorities seems to be non-existent,
>
>What is so "heavy-weight" about it except that you need to state it's syntax
>and who'll be the naming authority?

Well, it seems I have to do this in a full-blown RFC and submit it to
the IETF for a two-week period of consideration. And in any case, I
wouldn't be able to register a top level two letter NID like 'uk' as
that's against their naming rules.

The top level of NIDs is not the place for every man and his dog to register
names - that way lies anarchy...

>Why don't you just use an URI scheme that *is* reqistered and does what you
>need?

I could (and do), but I was asking how to go about *if* I wanted to
do it with a URN...
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