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	Title		: The 'tag' URI scheme and URN namespace
	Author(s)	: T. Kindberg, S. Hawke
	Filename	: draft-kindberg-tag-uri-03.txt
	Pages		: 10
	Date		: 02-Aug-02
	
This document describes the 'tag' Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)
scheme and the 'tag' Uniform Resource Name (URN) namespace, for
identifiers that are unique across space and time. Tag URIs (also
known as 'tags') are distinct from most other URIs in that they are
intended for uses that are independent of any particular method for
resource location or name resolution. A tag URI may be used purely as
an entity identifier. It may also be presented to services for
resolution into a web resource or into one or more further URIs, but
no particular resolution scheme is implied or preferred by a tag URI
itself. Unlike UUIDs or GUIDs such as 'uuid' URIs and 'urn:oid' URIs,
which also have some of the above properties, tag URIs are designed
to be tractable to humans. Furthermore, they have many of the
desirable properties that 'http' URLs have when used as identifiers,
but none of the drawbacks.

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