Re: URI's for processes, stocks, file hashes, UPC's, etc..

Hi Stan,

I would take a look at the info: URI scheme.  It seems like a good  
fit to me - a URI scheme for identifiers that don't necessarily  
resolve to anything and aren't tied back to the domain of your  
company (and therefore your control).

A registry of sub-namespaces under the info: URI scheme is here:
   http://info-uri.info

Cheers,
Sean

On Sep 18, 2006, at 9:16 PM, Stan James wrote:

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> Hi,
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> My company (www.lijit.com) allows people to enter comments about  
> URI's. Till now we've only had commenting about URL's, but we have  
> tools now for handling comments on stock symbols, UPC/GTIN codes,  
> and file hashes. The question then is how to encode these in URI's.
>
> Others have suggested building off our company URL, eg:
> http://www.lijit.com/stocks/nasdaq/GOOG
> but this won't work because we want this to be an open standard  
> that other people can use without tying everything back to us.
>
> I'm thinking of something like:
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> stocks
> security://nasdaq/stock/GOOG
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> UPC/GTIN
> gtin://97807868684494
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> file hash:
> hash://sha-1/2fd4e1c67a2d28fced849ee1bb76e7391b93eb12
>
> I realize these aren't registered schemes. However, will this work,  
> or are there any suggestions for a better way to do this?
>
> -stan
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Sean Reilly,	CNRI
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