Re: [Gzz] urn-5 "documents"

[Tuomas Lukka]

> Yes, I agree. I think we should make use of the fact that this is not 
> specific to us: It is a new way of using URIs, introduced by W3C (I 
> think). The two really prominent examples are XML namespace names and 
> RDF "terms" (not the correct word, I don't remember the correct one). 
> There is even at least one other URN namespace being registered that 
> solely exists for this kind of id: the urn:tag: namespace (see 
> taguri.org; e.g., 
> urn:urn-tag:address@hidden,2002:a-readable-identifier). BTW, there is a 
> term for making a new such URI, giving it a meaning: you "mint" it.
> 
> Our contribution really is a) that you don't even have to enter a domain 
> name or email address to mint identifiers (which comes at the cost of 
> non-readability), and b) the *idea* that this can be used in far more 
> contexts than most people currently expect, namely that the computer can 
> internally assign URIs to a great many objects, instead of the process 
> common today in which all URIs are explicitly minted by humans.

Can you write that into the article, with the correct references?

        Tuomas