"lid" URLs

From: Larry Masinter (LM@att.com)
Date: Sat, Apr 15 2000

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    From: "Larry Masinter" <LM@att.com>
To: <uri@w3.org>, <www-tv@w3.org>
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 10:32:58 -0700
Message-ID: <NDBBKEBDLFENBJCGFOIJEEKJCIAA.LM@att.com>
Subject: "lid" URLs

(someone) wrote me:

> I've just noticed a couple of Internet drafts that propose and refer to a
> URI scheme called lid:
>
>    draft-blackketter-lid-00.txt
>    draft-finseth-isanlid-00.txt
>
> I have two thoughts:
>
> (a) these lid:'s look more like URNs to me
>
> (b) the lid draft claims that lid:'s are simulatneously URIs and URNs, but
> they don't conform to URN syntax (in not having a leading "urn:" or
> namespace identifier parts).

I don't have a problem with URL-schemes that have URN-like semantics,
since there are enough of them already (cid, news, etc.). I think the
wording (saying that lid URLs are URNs) probably needs to change, since
it just adds confusion.


Larry