Re: [urn] URN fragments

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Tue, 26 February 2013 16:01 UTC

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Subject: Re: [urn] URN fragments
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On 2013-02-22 07:57, Juha Hakala wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 22.2.2013 5:36, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>> Hi Juha, this model sounds similar to what you described for the query
>> component: the fragment can be "added to the URN". I'm not sure what
>> that means. When you add a query component or a fragment identifier to
>> the URN, is that now a different URN (which wasn't assigned by the
>> minting organization or in accordance with the minting algorithm)? Or
>> is "a URN with some additional data appended" and therefore not really
>> a URN anymore? Or is actually a URI (such as an HTTP URI) whose path
>> is the URN itself as just a string of characters embedded in the
>> broader URI?
>
> Despite the addition of fragment and query the URN itself remains the
> same, even though the HTTP URI changes.
> ...

Well, it's a different string, thus a different URN.

 > ...

Best regards, Julian