RE: Best Practices for Establishing Namespace Name

Thanks very much for your suggestions!

Is http: URI that same as URL?  And, is the use of them for namespace names (in lieu of URN) recommended by standards organizations such as W3C and OASIS?
 
The committee (we are participating in) seems to think that we should register a formal URN namespace for "global" uses like OASIS and S1000D have done [1], because that would allow us to use this unique namespace as part of our schema namespace structure for different schemas in different specifications.

[1] http://www.iana.org/assignments/urn-namespaces/

 
Regards,


Scott Tsao 曹壽國
Associate Technical Fellow 
The Boeing Company 



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From: Henry S. Thompson [mailto:ht@inf.ed.ac.uk <mailto:ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> ]
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To: G. Ken Holman
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Subject: Re: Best Practices for Establishing Namespace Name

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G. Ken Holman writes:

> I regret that the OASIS policy at the release of UBL was URN-based and
> not URL-based, but such was the case at the time.

Just to endorse the implication here: use http: URIs, and put _something_ at that URI, even if it's only one line to tell people where to look for the details.

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