Re: [xml-dev] URIs

[Stephen Cameron <steve.cameron.62@gmail.com>]

Thanks Simon,

I am a guilty Universalist!

Relevant RFC is this one I guess.
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986

But its not hard to understand the confusion.
http://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/1_NeedUniversal.html

Maybe Universal was used initially?

Cheers

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 3:36 AM, Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com> wrote:

On 11/14/13 10:59 AM, Hans-Juergen Rennau wrote:

To achieve global uniqueness, short strings won't do.

Just a quick reminder to all:

URIs are Uniform Resource Identifiers, not Universal or Unique.

URIs have been reused quite frequently, often to cases (versions of XML vocabularies) with substantially different meanings.

(They can also be quite short, though I think that's less of a problem.)

Thanks,
--
Simon St.Laurent
http://simonstl.com/

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