Re: [rdf] Re: URIs

On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 10:41 -0400, Alan Ruttenberg wrote:

> something, but as far as I can see, the only authority related to  
> namespaces in URLs is the DNS, and while there is the SRV field which  
> might be used to direct someone to information about the namespace, I  
> don't know whether anyone does.


I believe this SRV-redirection behaviour is part of the LSID spec, and
we use it for all of the BioMOBY LSIDs...

M



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