Re: Namespace name: better to use URN or URL?

[David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>]

>     in my philosophy, a URN provides a better fit, 

In the sense that today nobody "expects" URNs to be used to
locate entities (it's a rarity) the way they do with URLs.

 
> (The point has also been made that it's easier to create a unique URL than a
> unique URN, but I'm not convinced that that's true.)

Well, the UUID scheme would seem to contradict that.  "uuidgen.exe"
on Win32 generates UUIDs, as I recall, and the prefix "urn:uuid:" turns
one nicely into a URN ... you're safe in most cases from reusing UUIDs
that you generate like that.

- Dave