Re: are many URIs ultimately relative? was RE: are 'cid' URLs relative?

On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 12:44:48PM -0400, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
> Michael Mealling wrote:
> > On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 12:15:16PM -0500, Al Gilman wrote:
> > > At 11:11 AM 2000-05-26 -0400, Jonathan Borden wrote:
>>> Is the ISO FPI class of names registered yet, either as a recognized naming
>>> authority under URNs or as a scheme under URIs?
> >
> > No one is working on this as far as I know and I'm aware of most of 'em.
> > I'd love to find out who might be authoritative over that space in order
> > to help them write such a document. Any idea who I should contact to
> > get this moving forward?
> 
> I'll admit my ignorance and ask the question some other people might be 
> wondering about too: what is the ISO FPI class of names?  And why 
> does it seem to fit the role of a namespace name?

FPI = Formal Public Identifiers. Its the thing you normally put
in the PUBLIC part of the DOCTYPE line....

-MM

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