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Eliot wrote in response to a question about URNs: | Note that with TC1 to ISO 8879 (SGML) that domain names are recognized as | registered owner names (equivalent to URN namespace IDs) ... A URN name space ID is not the same as a registered owner name. The name space ID would identify the name space within with the registered owner name exists. However, DNS names are not appropriate for use in URNs because they are not guaranteed to be unique over time (as a practical matter, the period of 40 years has been mentioned). If ISO (the intellectual property owner) were to define a URN NID for its specs (call it ISO) and a subdivision for FPIs, it would have to, at minimum, state that FPIs constructed with DNS names as owner names were not included. It was a really bad idea to allow domain names in FPIs, and one can only wish the proposal had been circulated more widely before being approved. Regards, Terry Allen Electronic Commerce and Publishing Consultant tallen[at]sonic.net http://www.sonic.net/~tallen/ DocBook: http://www.ora.com/davenport/index.html xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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