RE: URNs, Namespaces and Registries

Hi Marty,

> From: www-tag-request@w3.org [mailto:www-tag-request@w3.org] 
> On Behalf Of Schleiff, Marty
> . . .
> Not all identifiers are intended to persist indefinitely. Some
> identifiers (e.g., DDNS IP addresses) actually are intended to be
> re-issued as needed. . . . 
> 
> It think that one-time pseudonymns (like those used in assertions to
> avoid profiling and protect privacy) are also somehow relevant to the
> topic of persistence. 

Ineresting use case!  Transient URIs can also be handled using
specialized HTTP prefix URIs, as described in 
http://dbooth.org/2006/urn2http/ .  I've just added this to the FAQ:
http://dbooth.org/2006/urn2http/#FAQ .

> . . .
> I agree that persistent identifiers is a management issue and not a
> technology issue, and that it's up to the identifier minters 
> to enforce
> the degree of persistence they choose. However, there is value to a
> consistent syntactic method for the minters to manifest their 
> intentions
> with respect to persistence and convey those intentions to another
> party. A company such as mine has literally thousands of customer,
> supplier, and partner companies -- it would pretty difficult for me to
> keep track of the variety of approaches each partner might use to
> indicate persistence.

Good point.  This can also be done using specialized http prefix URIs.
I've just added this to the FAQ also:
http://dbooth.org/2006/urn2http/#FAQ .  Here are the techniques
mentioned:
[[
- The owner of the specialized HTTP prefix can use the rest of the URI
to delegate minting authority to other URI owners, such as:
        http://xyzpurl.org?xyzscheme:foo.com/fum
        http://xyzpurl.org?xyzscheme:bar.com/boo

- In effect, a class of specialized HTTP prefixes can be defined, and
individually owned prefixes can declare themselves to be members of that
class.  For example, if the term
http://xyzconsortium.org/terms/xyzprefix is defined to indicate that
something is a specialized xyz HTTP prefix, then metadata served
(indirectly) via http://foo.com?fum can indicate that "http://foo.com?"
is a http://xyzconsortium.org/terms/xyzprefix , and metadata served
(indirectly) via http://bar.com?bee can also indicate that
"http://bar.com?" is a http://xyzconsortium.org/terms/xyzprefix .  
]]


David Booth, Ph.D.
HP Software
dbooth@hp.com
Phone: +1 617 629 8881

Received on Wednesday, 9 August 2006 16:03:01 UTC