Re: What is at the end of the namespace?

> > No, URNs are only those URI that start with a "urn" scheme.
>
> I disagree.
>
> Yes, I know that the recent "clarification" could be interpreted
> to say that, but it doesn't actually *say* that ;-)

Hmm... you're right. That's a bit of a faux pas. The spirit of the
contemporary view is that the distinction between the taxonomies is
melting away into something a little more grounded by ten years of Web
implementation.

Really, we need an awful lot more documents like uri-clarification
[1]. It was a fair start, and there are a lot of questions to be
addressed, but I don't think that it has gone any way to resolving
discussions such as this one before they start. I'm not even 100% sure
what the statuses are of the groups at the W3C and IETF charted to
deal with this.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/uri-clarification/

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Sean B. Palmer
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Received on Monday, 19 November 2001 10:55:38 UTC