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On Thursday 25 July 2002 23:42, John Cowan wrote: > The urn:oid: scheme represents ASN.1 Object Identifiers, which are > hierarchical sequences of numbers used to label various computer-related > things. For example, urn:oid:1.3.6.1 is the Internet itself. For no really good reason other than because I can: urn:oid:1.2.826.0.1.4062548.2.0 ...is the URN of my old mobile phone. Not of the *number* - there's a URL scheme for phone numbers - but of the phone itself. That phone is no longer associated with the number anyway, because I have a new phone. I tend to use OIDs for XML namespaces in order to avoid the URL "confusions". ABS
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