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- From: Jerome McDonough <jmcdonou@library.berkeley.edu>
- To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 15:07:32 -0700
At 01:39 PM 9/22/98 -0500, Steven R. Newcomb wrote:
>> The URN working group of the IETF is working on an Internet Draft
>> addressing the issue of how name assignment authorities are registered
>> (or not). Quoting from the draft: "In a nutshell, a template for
>> the definition of the namespace is completed for deposit with IANA,
>> and a NID (namespace identifier) is assigned." The draft contemplates
>> three levels of name spaces: experimental, informal, and formal.
>> Experimental are not explicitly registered with IANA, and take
>> the form of x-<NID>; no provision is made for avoiding collision
>> of experimental NIDs.
>
>Do you think I would be correct in assuming that I could use the
>above-described x-<NID> form to assign the "1922 Sears Farm Catalog"
>to a namespace I invent that I could call, in effect, "Sears, Roebuck
>& Co."?
>
Yup. So, something like:
urn:x-SearsRoebuck:1992_Sears_Farm_Catalog
is perfectly legitimate. There are limitations on what characters
you're allowed to use in <NID>s (see RFC 2141); only a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and
the dash character. So, no white spaces, ampersands, punctuation, etc.
But within those restraints, you're pretty much free to do whatever
you want with experimental URNs.
Jerome McDonough -- jmcdonou@library.Berkeley.EDU | (......)
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