Re: [Fwd: Re: Approval of initial Dublin Core Interoperabiity Qualifiers]

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



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