Re: Review and URN assignment for draft-seantek-xmlns-urn-00

worley@ariadne.com (Dale R. Worley) Tue, 11 November 2014 16:10 UTC

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Subject: Re: Review and URN assignment for draft-seantek-xmlns-urn-00
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I'd like to see more discussion of why this NID is needed.  The draft
says:

   Experience suggests that several URN namespace registrations have
   been proposed over the years, where the primary (yet only
   occasionally stated) purpose is to create short URIs for the
   registrant's XML namespaces.

That's true, but one can create URIs to name one's XML namespaces in
many ways already.  One can use "oid" URNs, or "tag" URIs, or build
HTTP URLs based on one's domain registration.

The draft continues:

   registrant's XML namespaces.  An XML namespace designer now has the
   option of choosing a short, memorable identifier ...

I assume that means "This draft provides an XML namespace designer
with the option...", even though the "now" in that sentence is
ambiguous -- does it refer to the time before adoption of the draft or
after?

It seems that mnemonicity is a goal.  But in practice, the nicely
mnemonic values will be taken fairly quickly and future registrants
will be restricted to non-mnemonic values -- unless some sort of
de-facto grouping convention comes to be used.

I've got some other issues with this draft, but they can be postponed
until we resolve why the NID is needed.  (They are very similar to my
issues with draft-seantek-rdf-urn-00.)

Dale