- From: <Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 11:40:13 +0300
- To: <sandro@w3.org>
- Cc: <dehora@eircom.net>, <uri@w3.org>, <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
> -----Original Message----- > From: ext Sandro Hawke [mailto:sandro@w3.org] > Sent: 08 July, 2003 14:52 > To: Stickler Patrick (NMP/Tampere) > Cc: dehora@eircom.net; uri@w3.org; www-rdf-interest@w3.org > Subject: Re: Proposal: new top level domain '.urn' alleviates all need > for urn: URIs > > > > > > *nothing* needs to > > change to put my proposal into use. > > The problem I see is how you make a domain name, even issn.iana.org, > stable. It seems totally possible that 5 years from now iana will > change its name, and politcal winds will make it really, really want > to change issn.iana.org to issn.joePoliticanMemorialIANA.org. Which is why I proposed a top level domain. Still, something like urn.org would be just fine. There's very little chance, I think, that any future organizational change would impact the legal/political/etc. significance of that name, and it's hardly much more informative than "urn:". Still, .urn would be the safest bet, IMO, if it could be pulled off. > Or someone could forget to pay the bills. I've lost a domain that > way. I pushed pretty hard and was assured that even verisign couldn't > get its own domain back (unless trademark law applied) if it forgot to > pay the bill on time. And it's not only individuals who forget to pay > bills (I'm thinking of microsoft forgetting to pay for hotmail.com). Well, I wouldn't expect this particular domain to be commercially owned or managed. Hence the idea of a top level domain. Noone is paying to own '.org' or '.com' or '.net' (even if they may be charging others to own/maintain subdomains below them). > Presumably, if enough was built on the exact name, there would be > enough of a back presure that the domain could not be taken away, but > ... it's a concern. I agree. And it's one that can be addressed, I think, quite nicely with a special tld .urn which is owned and managed by the same organizational body that manages urn: subscheme registration -- and is guarunteed perpetuity by the powers that be... Maybe that's a pipe dream, but I'd be very surprised if it was beyond the real of possibility. Patrick
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