• To: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>,tbray@t... (Tim Bray)
• Subject: Re: DNS based URIs that don't imply access method
• From: "Alaric B. Snell" <alaric@a...>
• Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 10:24:25 +0100
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <200207252255.SAA20084@m...>
• References: <200207252255.SAA20084@m...>

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". 

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