- From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:12:07 -0800
- To: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
On Jan 29, 2007, at 5:38 AM, samwald@gmx.at wrote: >> I have seen some references how UUID can be used in a URN. But can >> they be URI:s as well? > > URNs are a subclass of URIs. They can be used in any place where > URIs can be used, e.g. in any RDF graph. Is there a reason why you > would like to see a non-URN URI scheme for UUIDs? There exists an > RFC for the encoding of UUIDs in URNs, so it is probably a good > choice to stick with that: > http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc4122.txt Minting new URNs is not considered a great idea. Inevitably people seem to want to dereference them and this leads to a proliferation of different (with non machine understandable specification) resolution schemes and associated costs for deployment. I'd recommend avoiding them in favor of URIs. Regards, Alan
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