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Uche Ogbuji wrote: > [...] My guess would be that > "urn:uuid:..." is the second most common URI variant after URL, and the > latest IETF draft has even given up the feeble approach of using hosts' ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > network addresses for UUID generation. Now they recommend using random > numbers all the way. Seems the very antithesis of "territory". Does anyone know where the the latest IETF draft is? I can't find anything about the uuid: scheme under the URN working group area or the "Individual Submissions" area, and a keyword search for "uuid" doesn't turn anything up. Has the draft expired? The UUID scheme would solve a real problem I've been having wrt. inventing namespace URIs: "[t]he namespace name, to serve its intended purpose, should have the characteristics of uniqueness and persistence." [Namespaces, section 2]. Uniqueness I can handle -- the organization behind flightlab.com is small enough that there's little chance of conflict if I use an 'http:' URL (and besides, I'm the only one here who really does much with XML anyway), but persistence is another matter altogether. Using the http: scheme for persistent URIs is all well and good for the W3C, but you'd think they'd know better than to recommend it as a general solution for everyone else after having gone through the info.cern.ch -> mit.edu -> w3.org transition. --Joe English jenglish@f...
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