The urn: URI scheme

On 16 May 2002 at 7:04, Larry Masinter wrote:

> RFC 2717 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2717.txt),
> "Registration Procedures for URL Scheme Names",
> describes the procedure for adding a new URL scheme.

This reminds me... One thing I'm really curious about is why "urn:" 
isn't on the official list of registered URI schemes.  It's got an 
RFC about it (RFC 2141), so why isn't it officially registered as a 
URI scheme?

References:
URN RFC: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2141.txt
Official scheme list: http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes
Unofficial scheme list: http://www.w3.org/Addressing/schemes.html

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Received on Thursday, 16 May 2002 10:53:13 UTC