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   Re: [xml-dev] URN vs URL

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At 7:40 pm +0100 30/7/03, Alaric B Snell wrote:
>>Andy Greener wrote:
>
>>>Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places, so any pointers to resources
>>>would be appreciated.
>
>Well, there's the urn:pin: namespace
>
>ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3043.txt
>
>Or you can get an OID from your friendly neighbourhood ISO member body - the BSI in my case - and use urn:oid: like I did:
>
>http://www.warhead.co.uk/oid.html

Both very handy references, thanks (though neither results in what
might be called a "memorable" or mnemonic urn :-)

Supplementary question: if I was, say, a Government department, what
would you recommend? Neither a "pin" urn or an "oid" in the UK company
namespace seems appropriate...
-- 

Andy Greener                         Mob: +44 7836 331933
GID Ltd, Reading, UK                 Tel: +44 118 956 1248
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