At 06:31 PM 5/29/00 -0400, Michael Mealling wrote: >> Er... is there in fact a standardized process? I'd really like to know >> about it, especially if it works for ISBNs in general. > >Yep. See RFC 2141 for the URN syntax spec. RFC 2168 for how to >find the server that is authoritative for that URN namespace. And >then see RFC 2169 for a trivial (and in need of updating) way >to query for the various locations of the resource. > >The problem is that while the proces is defined and set in general. >The organization that is authoritative for ISBNs hasn't registered >for the namespace or setup the resolvers yet. I guess what I should have asked is whether the process is in fact implemented - it appears not to be. Until it is, I'll continue to regard URNs as funky theoretical creatures, but only occasionally practical. Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. Building XML Applications Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical Cookies / Sharing Bandwidth http://www.simonstl.comReceived on Monday, 29 May 2000 19:19:14 GMT
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