Re: [Gzz] Re: urn-5 article

[Tuomas Lukka]

On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 11:24:45PM +0200, Benja Fallenstein wrote:
> Tuomas Lukka wrote:
> 
> >>urn:sha-1 is neither used nor 
> >>registered nor in the process of being registered, so the most we could 
> >>refer to it is as an idea someone has had at some point. A nit, I know, 
> >>but important when publishing this.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Some gnutella clients use it.
> >
> 
> Oh, that's interesting! Can you give a reference? I haven't found one on 
> google.

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-talk/2001NovDec/0090.html

from googling

gnutella urn sha

> >>Possible order of presentation:
> >>- Globally unique ids and why you want to use them
> >>- Places that don't use globally unique ids currently, and what you 
> >>cannot do because of that
> >>- The urn:urn-5 namespace
> >>- how it works
> >>- how it's different from hashing
> >>- Caveat: Human readability/writability problems
> >>- only in text editors, structure editors can handle ids internally
> >>- Caveat: unlike relative identifiers, when you have an urn:urn-5 id, 
> >>you don't automatically have any document/context it appears in
> >>- you can have a central registry on a system containing those ids, if 
> >>you want to perform lookups using them
> >>- this kind of registry would allow RDF statements about identified 
> >>objects to be resolved
> >>- could use this to implement transclusions and links
> >>- Conclusions
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Have to have introduction and prior art first. And mention urn:urn-5 
> >in the introduction and explain that we're going to say here what it's for.
> >
> 
> The idea was to have the first two points, "Globally unique ids" and 
> "Places that don't use globally unique ids currently," as the 
> introduction (doing exactly that)... But of course should mention 
> urn:urn-5 too.

Not necessarily good: the introduction is expected to have references
to prior work that's somehow similar. Those two points should probably
come in the section *after* the introduction.

        Tuomas