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Re: URN vs URL

• To: Andy Greener <andy@g...>
• Subject: Re: URN vs URL
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 18:45:16 -0400
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <p05200f24bb4ddd9b19b4@[89.10.0.19]>
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Andy Greener scripsit:

> Supplementary question: if I was, say, a Government department, what
> would you recommend? Neither a "pin" urn or an "oid" in the UK company
> namespace seems appropriate...

BSI could easily assign an OID to the U.K. government under 1.2.826.0
or 2.16.826, analogous to 2.6.124.101, the Government of Canada OID.

-- 
John Cowan   jcowan@r...  http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
Most languages are dramatically underdescribed, and at least one is 
dramatically overdescribed.  Still other languages are simultaneously 
overdescribed and underdescribed.  Welsh pertains to the third category.
        --Alan King

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