• To: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Subject: Re: Access XML
• From: "Alaric B. Snell" <alaric@a...>
• Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 11:47:29 +0000
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <E18vyTP-0000gp-00@m...>
• References: <E18vyTP-0000gp-00@m...>

On Thursday 20 March 2003 11:44, John Cowan wrote:

> > > So a
> > > date has to be involved, and IMHO should be involved in *every*
> > > namespace name, whether URL or URN, where the DNS is being relied on at
> > > all.
> >
> > That's moving towards a 'big ugly number' scheme [...] .
>
> But not very far.  Dates (or in fact year numbers) are sufficient to
> disambiguate name-rental situations like DNS.

Yes, I think you're right :-)

Ok! Does anyone fancy writing a URN proposal RFC? Or shall I try to fit it 
into my busy schedule?

urn:domain:alaric-snell.com:2003:fish

urn:dn:... might be a bit nicer to type, of course.

ABS

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