- From: Jonathan Rees <jar@creativecommons.org>
- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:40:20 -0400
- To: Eric Jain <Eric.Jain@isb-sib.ch>
- Cc: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>, "Booth, David (HP Software - Boston)" <dbooth@hp.com>, ogbujic@ccf.org, public-semweb-lifesci hcls <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
On Aug 21, 2007, at 12:11 PM, Eric Jain wrote: > That's not accidental reuse as cold happen with e.g. urn:bm:ipi:12 > where someone who has never heard of Banff might end up with the > same identifier for something completely unrelated (e.g. hotels in > the Bahamas). There is a registry of URN namespace ids (NIDs). Anyone inventing a new one would be advised to check for collisions, and then apply to IANA following documented procedure. Failure to do so is as much a violation of internet naming rules as invention of a colliding URI scheme or top-level DNS domain would be. http://www.w3.org/TR/uri-clarification/ http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2611.txt http://www.iana.org/assignments/urn-namespaces (I know I've seen an unofficial list of NIDs - including numerous unregistered NIDs - but can't find it now) Oddly, urn:lsid: is not registered with IANA. Jonathan
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