- From: Mark Wilkinson <markw@illuminae.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:59:12 -0700
- To: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- Cc: Tony Hammond <t.hammond@nature.com>, public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 10:41 -0400, Alan Ruttenberg wrote:
> something, but as far as I can see, the only authority related to
> namespaces in URLs is the DNS, and while there is the SRV field which
> might be used to direct someone to information about the namespace, I
> don't know whether anyone does.
I believe this SRV-redirection behaviour is part of the LSID spec, and
we use it for all of the BioMOBY LSIDs...
M
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