Re: File API commens

Jonas Sicking wrote:
> ...
> I think we'd really like to avoid creating a new scheme if we could
> reuse an existing one. I know Arun was looking for an existing scheme,
> but not sure if he looked at the 'urn' scheme.
> 
> Would it need to be urn:somename:uuid though? like urn:fileid:uuid?
> ...

What's wrong with urn:uuid, which is defined in RFC 4122 and already cited?

> Also, Anne pointed out that we probably want fragment identifiers to
> work in whatever URI is returned. Would that be possible if we use
> 'urn'? If I'm reading rfc2141 right, it seems to say it's undefined.

Fragment identifiers are independent of the URI scheme 
(<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc3986.html#rfc.section.3.5.p.5>).

BR, Julian

Received on Thursday, 8 October 2009 16:54:13 UTC