Re: another idea for the URN approach to local UIDs in bookmarks

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Mark Smith wrote:

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| Jose Kahan wrote:
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|> What is easier to have, a fail-safe mechanism to produce URNs or
|> some well specified processing? If it's the former, then let's go
|> forward with URNs (and send a follow-up message on how to do it :).
|> Maybe you'd like to adopt the same mechanism used to generate msgids
|> by some mail client?
|>
|> I'm basically proposing that the applications do the same job
|> that the server does when you publish something and it attributes
|> a new URL.
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| I do not have an opinion about which approach is better for the bookmark
| local/global ID problem.  But generating globally unique UUIDs is
| something that quite a few applications and protocols do, and the most
| widely used algorithm is described here:
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|   http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-mealling-uuid-urn-03.txt
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| Sample C code is included in that Internet Draft.  The UUID-based URIs
| won't be pretty (e.g., urn:uuid:f81d4fae-7dec-11d0-a765-00a0c91e6bf6)
| but they should be globally unique.
|
maybe urn-5 would be worth considering too, it has a random part and a
local part wich could be used to identify an individual bookmark (and
maybe translated to a fragment identifier when moving to a conventional
localizable file).

http://www.iana.org/assignments/urn-informal/urn-5

cheers,
reto
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Received on Thursday, 1 April 2004 17:21:10 UTC