- From: Nick Matsakis <matsakis@mit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 17:40:53 -0500 (EST)
- To: "Hammond, Tony (ELSLON)" <T.Hammond@elsevier.com>
- Cc: "'karger@theory.lcs.mit.edu'" <karger@theory.lcs.mit.edu>, www-rdf-dspace@w3.org
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Hammond, Tony (ELSLON) wrote: > One of the prime qualities of 'urn' URIs are that they are > location-independent, i.e. no authority component. > urn://www.mit.edu/simile.... > > That doesn't work. URNs and FQDNs don't mix. What is an FQDN? It seems to me that there should be something like urn:dns:mit.edu/simile/... which says basically, this isn't resolvable, but the namespace is managed by the same people who manage the DNS namespace. The following is quite pedantic, but www.mit.edu/simile is not owned by the simile group. www.mit.edu is owned by an MIT student group (SIPB) that was doing web stuff before it was hot. Eventually, MIT wrested away www.mit.edu to point to web.mit.edu but everything _under_ www.mit.edu is still owned by SIPB. web.mit.edu/simile does belong to the simile group. However, web and www are both passe, and you can save yourself three characters by just going with http://mit.edu/simile/... which is also owned by the group. Nick
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