- From: Dave Reynolds <dave.e.reynolds@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 12:26:22 +0100
- To: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- Cc: Jonathan Rees <jar@creativecommons.org>, OWL Development Mailing List <public-owl-dev@w3.org>, zhutchok@ebi.ac.uk
On Sat, 2011-08-13 at 13:31 -0400, Alan Ruttenberg wrote: > On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Dave Reynolds > <dave.e.reynolds@gmail.com> wrote: > > So "SMTH:0000353" is a legal segment and "/obo/SMTH:0000353" a legal > > path and "http://purl.obofoundry.org/obo/SMTH:0000353" a legal URI. > > Isn't it? > > I believe it is. However for reasons described we choose not to use > colons in URIs and document this policy at > http://obofoundry.org/id-policy.shtml > > Since the namespace is owned OBO we get to be authority in that > namespace. So while the URI is legal, it is not well formed according > to our community rules. Ah, that's good. We are all agreed that even though ':' in an http URI path looks legal it would be asking for trouble in practice - glad to see the OBO policy is so clear. Dave
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