URN duri and tdb spec updated

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By recent popular demand, I updated (slightly)

         http://larry.masinter.net/duri.html (and .txt and .xml)
and submitted it to the internet-drafts repository as
               
           draft-masinter-dated-uri-05.txt.

The only substantial change I made since the 2004 draft was to change the
interpretation of the date from "first instant" to "last instant", based on
a comment by Al Gilman in 2004.

Replies to recent comments:
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Ray Denenberg asked:
> http://info-uri.info/   Have you considered 'info:' for duri and tbd?
Yes, I considered 'info:/' instead of URN namespaces. I don't think it fits
into 'info' because 'duri' and 'tdb' aren't really naming authorities in the
same way. This is more like urn:uuid:...
 
I thought about switching to plain URI schemes (without "urn:", e.g.,
uri:2008:whatever instead of urn:duri:2008:whatever), but it would be a
larger change to the draft, and require more explanation.
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Pat Hayes wrote:
> ... the date should be optional. 

There's no point in 'duri' without a date. I think even 'tdb' needs a date
of interpretation, because even when resources are unchanging, the date of
interpretation matters. 
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Stuart Williams wrote:
>  ..  something of a year 10K (or maybe 100K) problem 

The reference to RFC 2550 hints at how to solve that problem.
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Harry Halpin and Tim Kindberg wrote reviews or comments in 2004
which I responded to in email, but I didn't update the document
based on their comments and my replies.

Larry
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Received on Wednesday, 4 February 2009 04:07:06 UTC