Re: [URN] focus the question
"Martin J. Duerst" <duerst@w3.org> Thu, 15 October 1998 07:06 UTC
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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 15:33:50 +0900
To: Frederick Roeber <roeber@netscape.com>
From: "Martin J. Duerst" <duerst@w3.org>
Subject: Re: [URN] focus the question
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I think Frederick has summarized things very well: It doesn't make sense to reserve the currently assigned two-letter country codes. It only makes sense to reserve all two-letter codes, so that future collisions can be avoided. At 13:51 98/10/14 -0700, Frederick Roeber wrote: > On the question of reserving all two-letter pairs vs. only reserving > already assigned ISO two-letter country codes: > > > "draft-ietf-urn-nid-req-06.txt", dated October 8, 1998, introduced > > a change. I am discussing the change. The change was to reserve > > all two-letter URN namespaces. > > The only reason I suggested this change was that the previous documents > merely reserved the two-letter codes which were already country codes. > Obviously, that can break the next time someone revolts. DNS reserves > all two-letter codes -- assigned by ISO or not -- for the same reason.
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- Re: [URN] focus the question Martin J. Duerst