Howdy,
It is indeed perceived as an issue. It's currently being
discussed in the URN Working Group, in the form of proposed revisions
to the URN NID registration process document.
Personally, I think a solution is to have a more generic URN namespace
that serves the needs of more individual publishers, such as
this (and Norman Walsh, who has a similar proposal for "ndw").
I haven't had the time to sit down and propose one that could be
globally supported, and wouldn't simply push the ".com" problem
down a level.
Leslie.
"Dawkins, Spencer" wrote:
>
> I agree completely with the author's goals, but are we really going to do this?
>
> Hint: how many people in the world have the three initials "abc"?
>
> I'm not sure that per-carbon-based-lifeform URN spaces are going to scale a lot
>better than networks or domain names with the same level of granularity - especially
>since the URN seems headed for a flat namespace (think ".com", only it's a URN
>namespace).
>
> Am I missing something obvious (it IS 8:44 AM in my timezone)?
>
> Spencer
>
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-coates-urn-namespace-00.txt
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> > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
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> >
> > Title : URN Namespace for Literate Programming:
> > Anthony B. Coates
> > URN-NID-abc
> > Author(s) : A. Coates
> > Filename : draft-coates-urn-namespace-00.txt
> > Pages : 5
> > Date : 22-Sep-00
> >
> > This document describes a URN namespace for use in identifying XML
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> > B. Coates. In particular, the author develops applications for
> > literate programming.
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