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Re: [xml-dev] URN vs URL

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To: Andy Greener <andy@gid.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] URN vs URL
From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 13:55:38 -0700
Cc: Alaric B Snell <alaric@alaric-snell.com>, xml-dev@lists.xml.org
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Andy Greener wrote:

> 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...

Use an ordinary HTTP URI and put something useful where it points. 
Oops, sorry, that wasn't what you were asking, was it ;)

-- 
Cheers, Tim Bray
         (ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)

References:
- URN vs URL
  - From: Andy Greener <andy@gid.co.uk>
- Re: [xml-dev] URN vs URL
  - From: "Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>
- Re: [xml-dev] URN vs URL
  - From: Alaric B Snell <alaric@alaric-snell.com>
- Re: [xml-dev] URN vs URL
  - From: Andy Greener <andy@gid.co.uk>

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