Re: URN namespaces for use in 'magnet' URIs

[Mykyta Yevstifeyev <[e-mail]>]

24.07.2011 18:43, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> On 7/22/11 5:46 AM, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> The 'magnet' URIs, which are quite popular with P2P networks, have an
>> element named "exact topic" which contains the URN, forming an URI like:
>>
>>> magnet:?xt=<URN>&<other parameters>
>> The URNs used in 'magnet' URIs must be a "hash URN", none of which are
>> currently officially registered.  The hash URN is smth. like
>> <urn:sha1:c3499c2729730a7f807efb8676a92dcb6f8a3f8f>  using SHA-1; see
>> Wikipedia page on 'magnet' URIs -
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme#URN.2C_containing_hash_.28xt.29
>> - for more examples of hash URNs.
>>
>> As I've mentioned, none of used hash URNs use the registered
>> namespaces.  Correspondingly, my question - is there a sense in
>> documenting such ones?
> Why not use UUIDs?
>
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122
P2P networks use DHT, Distributed Hash Table, which identifies the file 
using hashes.  See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table

Mykyta
>
> Peter
>