Re: uri, urn and info from Tim Bray on 2003-10-11 (uri@w3.org from October 2003)

From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 21:57:50 -0700
To: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
Cc: "Hammond, Tony (ELSLON)" <T.Hammond@elsevier.com>, 'Larry Masinter' <LMM@acm.org>, uri@w3.org
Message-ID: <3F878DCE.2010601@textuality.com>

John Cowan wrote:

> The URN namespace process is a whole lot simpler and involves less effort
> than the full URI scheme process.
> 
> In that case you could register an URN namespace urn:niso: and then do
> your own allocation within that space.

Or, NISO and these organizations could arrange to register a URN 
namespace for each of them and delegate the registration in those 
namespaces to NISO.  Why would this be less good than a top-level info: 
scheme? -Tim

Received on Saturday, 11 October 2003 00:57:39 UTC