On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, O'brien, Tim wrote:
> We should try to have an organization identifier of something like > "org-apache", or "org.apache". This shouldn't be confused with Java package > naming conventions. Repository discussions should get bogged down in > references to JARs, I see this repository URI syntax as being technology > neutral. Artifacts are simply files, if the XML descriptor for a specific > product wants to provide some sort of artifact type that would be just fine. This may draw a smile in certain quarters - but have a look at 'URN's - they solve very large parts of this puzzle cleanly; allow others to mangage similar namespaces in paralleln (and have recently been made operational in addr-arpa). Dw
