- From: Ray Denenberg <rden@loc.gov>
- Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 09:21:39 -0400
- To: W3C URI List <uri@w3.org>
- CC: Norman Paskin <n.paskin@doi.org>, Larry Lannom <llannom@CNRI.Reston.Va.US>, "Sun, Sam X." <ssun@CNRI.Reston.Va.US>
Leslie Daigle wrote: > c) URN is well-defined: there is a URI scheme, URN:, ...... > > Thus, hdl: ...... can be one or both of: > > 1. a URI scheme ... > > 2. a URN: namespace (i.e., carried in URNs). > Both the "one" and the "both", of "one or both", trouble me. For the "one" scenario: thus the handle folks (CNRI) need to decide whether to register hdl: as a URI scheme or a URN namespace. Assuming that hdl fulfils the characteristics of a URN, on what basis do they make this choice? And let's say they decide to register it as a URN namespace, and then another company develops a scheme that similarly meets the URN characteristics but registers it as a URI scheme. Won't this cause confusion? For the "both" scenario: I'm afraid I don't understand how it could be registered as both; or, I suppose I understand *how* it could, but not *why*. --Ray -- Ray Denenberg Library of Congress 202-707-5795 rden@loc.gov
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