Re: genid:

On 2011-04-20, at 08:43, Andy Seaborne wrote:
On 19/04/11 13:50, Ivan Herman wrote:
>> 
>> On Apr 19, 2011, at 14:40 , Andy Seaborne wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 19/04/11 11:59, Ivan Herman wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On Apr 19, 2011, at 12:15 , Andy Seaborne wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> <snip/>
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I don't worry about dereferencability so prefer "genid:"
>>>> 
>>>> I think there was a general feeling at the f2f that everybody would
>>>> prefer this, except that... per Sandro, it took 10 years to get the
>>>> tag: schema through IETF, so having a genid: scheme through IETF
>>>> would be a nightmare, let alone that it may not be done by the time
>>>> this working group closes:-(
>>> 
>>> (Minor, not urgent)
>>> 
>>> For the genid: URI scheme:
>>> 
>>> 1/ Is it only for bNodes?
>> 
>> yes
>> 
>>> "genid" reads as if it's for any generated id; there are other schemes already + risk of clashes.
> 
> In that case, I suggest that "bnode" is better than "genid" because generated ids can occur for other reasons, and potentially confusing for RDF, IRI generation from some database key.

Strong -1 - these are not bNodes, but something else, derived from bNodes.

Note that 4store uses <bnode:...>, and I'm still anti.

- Steve

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