unregistered URI schemes, was: [Minutes] 30 Aug 2002 TAG teleconf (arch doc, xlinkScope-23, deepLinking-25, uriMediaType-9, URIEquivalence-15)

• From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
• Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 11:35:25 +0200
• To: <www-tag@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <JIEGINCHMLABHJBIGKBCEEDBFEAA.julian.reschke@gmx.de>

>     [DanConn]
>      ^hmm... interesting idea
>      "9. Do not use unregistered URI schemes:" looks
>      like a good practice thingy more than a
>      principle.

I'd prefer to keep it a MUST -- what would be the justification to allow it
in some cases?

Anyway,

the document uses

	urn:uuid:BDC6E3F0-6DA3-11d1-A2A3-00AA00C14882. The URN UUID scheme is for
Universal Unique Identifiers.

as example. "urn:" indeed is a registered URI scheme, but "uuid:" isn't a
registered URN namespace identifier (according to [1]). Leaving the example
as it is may encourage people to make up their URN NIDs (without registering
them as defined by RFC 2611), which I think is A Bad Thing.

Julian

[1] <http://uri.net/urn-nid-status.html>


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