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On Thursday 25 July 2002 23:42, John Cowan wrote:
> The urn:oid: scheme represents ASN.1 Object Identifiers, which are
> hierarchical sequences of numbers used to label various computer-related
> things. For example, urn:oid:1.3.6.1 is the Internet itself.
For no really good reason other than because I can:
urn:oid:1.2.826.0.1.4062548.2.0
...is the URN of my old mobile phone. Not of the *number* - there's a URL
scheme for phone numbers - but of the phone itself. That phone is no longer
associated with the number anyway, because I have a new phone.
I tend to use OIDs for XML namespaces in order to avoid the URL "confusions".
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