- From: David Megginson <david@megginson.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 20:40:34 -0400 (EDT)
- To: "Didier PH Martin" <martind@netfolder.com>
- Cc: "XML List" <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>, <xsl-editors@w3.org>
Didier PH Martin writes:
> David, I participated to the URN elaboration within IETF auspices. If you go
> the IETF official RFC repository you'll find that the RFC 2141 defining URNs
> is posted since already at least more than a year. So URNs are as real as
> XML is and because it is the byproduct of IETF probably created in a more
> democratic way than XML itself. Also, an other RDF has been created to
> specify how URNs are resolved with DNS. Bottom line there is an
> authoritative specification: RFC 2141.
The problem is that there are no authoritative specifications for any
URN namespaces except the IETF one. If I wanted to use a URN for an
XML Namespace today, how would I construct it without using an x-* URN
namespace?
All the best,
David
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Received on Friday, 28 May 1999 20:41:04 UTC