- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 17:13:48 -0400
- To: michaelm@netsol.com, Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Cc: michaelm@netsol.com, Tim Kindberg <timothy@hpl.hp.com>, uri@w3.org
At 04:20 PM 5/7/01 -0400, Michael Mealling wrote: >Nope. URNs have the requirement that once you assign a URN to its >Resource you can never reassign that URN to some other Resource. >Sure, you could assign a URN to whatever the http protocol gave you >on port 80 at cnn.com and that would be a useful thing because then >I could rely on the fact that, no matter what CNN did to cnn.com or >whether or not CNN even existed anymore, whenever I used that >URN I knew that someone hadn't changed the meaning out from under me. So does this mean that changing the Resource is effectively creating a new Resource? Simon St.Laurent - Associate Editor, O'Reilly & Associates XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. XHTML: Migrating Toward XML http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books
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