Re: W3C URN scheme 'root' doesn't exist?

Hi guys

can I propose this in an MPEG contribution?  Would the W3C follow through and formally reserve/define the URI form?

On May 12, 2014, at 7:24 , David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote:

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> On May 12, 2014, at 15:43 , Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org> wrote:
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>> On 12/05/2014 14:16 , David Singer wrote:
>>> Actually, you are right, DASH requires it be a URI, so if W3C prefers
>>> to use a URL over a URN, even for something that is a name, that is
>>> fine.
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>> I will stay well clear of the landmine discussion about whether locators are the naming mechanism or not, but if you think this is an acceptable option please file a bug against HTML (I'm copying Silvia who generally handles media stuff).
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>> We can mint identifiers of the type http://www.w3.org/ns/whatever-name without Director approval, all we need is to say so and add a few HTML documents at the end of those URLs (which I can do easily). If you think that identifiers with another structure would be good I'm just as happy but we need the Director's approval.
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> OK, so
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> http://www.w3.org/ns/html-track-kind/<a valid value of the kind attribute for an HTML track element>
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> would be entirely fine.  Maybe the last / should be # ?
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> http://www.w3.org/ns/html-track-kind#<a valid value of the kind attribute for an HTML track element>
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> or don’t namespaces use #’s?
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>> The policy on URL naming assignment between specs is here:
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>>   http://www.w3.org/2005/07/13-nsuri
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> cool.  I think that kinds are not year or spec-version-specific, and likely to stay stable.
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> Could this be part of the HTML spec.?  
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> “When a self-identifying HTML kind value is needed in a context outside HTML, the form http://www.w3.org/ns/html-track-kind/<a valid value of the kind attribute for an HTML track element> may be used.”
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> ??
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>> -- 
>> Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon
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> David Singer
> Manager, Software Standards, Apple Inc.
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David Singer
Manager, Software Standards, Apple Inc.

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