Hi Alexey,
On 9/14/17 12:25 PM, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
Hi Paul,
I am not an author, but let me disagree with one of your reported issues:
On 14 Sep 2017, at 16:45, Paul Kyzivat <[email protected]> wrote:
(2) MAJOR: Name or query?
A URN is by definition a *name*. Some parts of this document do focus on the
lex URN as a name. But the document also proposes using the lex URN as a
*query*. The following text from section 2 highlights this:
"To cope with possible incomplete or inaccurate uniform names,
the implementation of a catalogue, based on a relational-
database, able to associate a URN to related URLs, is
suggested, as it will lead to a higher flexibility in the
resolution process. A resolver can provide names normalization,
completion of inaccurate or incomplete names, and finally their
resolution in network locations (see Section 8.2 and 8.3 for
characteristics and behaviour of a catalogue for resolution)."
This behavior is inconsistent with the intent of URNs.
I think the document is only talking about names. Association with URLs is the
result of URN resolution process, which is a part of URN architecture. If this
is not clear, I think it should be clarified (if authors agree that this is the
intent).
I found it very difficult to sort out what was fundamental and normative
regarding the URN from the parts that are aspirational about resolution
and use. Hence my recommendation that this document be split. Such a
split may well resolve this issue for me.
I only pointed to this one place, but there are other places that
express an intention that it be possible to "guess" or recreate a lex
URN based on metadata about the document. That only makes sense if then
intent is that the resulting URN be resolvable to the document. But
there are so many elements to chosen and used or not for a given
document that reasonable people are likely to arrive at different forms
of the URN. That ties in to the quote above.
Thanks,
Paul
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