Re: [Gzz] Re: urn-5 article

[Benja Fallenstein]

Tuomas Lukka wrote:

> http://www.maol.ch/irc/egg2html.php?channel=gtk-gnutella&date=16Jun2002

That's more helpful, thanks! Ok, I'll look into this (it's *still* 
pretty hard to find actual stuff on this unfortunately, but easier now). 
-- The homepage of gtk-gnutella says the newest version supports 
entering urn:sha1's, btw.

They're base32-- have to think about whether/how to support that.

> > >      
> > Well, I meant like: "Globally unique ids are this (ref); examples 
> > include URIs, IP addresses, (...). Ids that are not globally unique 
> > include HTML anchors, (...)." So references to prior work that is 
> > somehow similar is exactly the point IMHO.
> >    
>
> But maybe starting more generally with identification, and then about
> how globality has become important now that the net makes places around
> the world accessible.
>  

Sounds good!

- Benja