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Re: Are URNs deprecated?

• From: "Liam R. E. Quin" <liam@w3.org>
• To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>, "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 17:18:26 -0400

On Wed, 2016-08-17 at 17:01 +0000, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> This Wikipedia sentence about URNs is puzzling:
> 
> 	Since RFC 3986 in 2005, the use of the term has been deprecated
>  	in favor of the less-restrictive "URI",

[...]

> Does "the use of the term has been deprecated" mean that URNs have
> been deprecated? 

First, Wikipedia is not a normative source of information here.

Second, the article says the _term_ "URN" has been deprecated: instead
of talking about URLs and URNs and URCs (remember those?), we now just
talk about URIs and IRIs (I for Internationalized). In this way of
thinking, "urn" is just another URI scheme like "http", "https", "ftp"
and so forth - albeit one that you can't directly resolve.

Liam


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Liam R. E. Quin <liam@w3.org>
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

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  • Are URNs deprecated?
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>