Re: Namespace names: a semi-serious proposal

On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 11:42:28AM -0600, Arnold, Curt wrote:
> Isn't that already achievable by using a URI with a protocol of "uuid:" 
> for the namespace and using the UUID generation algorithms.  That 
> could be a solution for relative URI's that are intended to
> indicate a document specific namespace.

This is the exact situation that the URN scheme was designed for. Essentially
your 'integer service' is identical to the OID namespace that ASN.1
uses. Its just a sequence of hierarchical numbers. Once you get
a particular hierarchy you can assign any integer below that 
hierarchy.

-MM

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