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04/28/2008 11:53 PM

post6006

Use of URLs vs URIs

This is a general comment: It is my experience that it is confusing and misleading to many users to use URLs instead of 
URNs when a URI is called for that is *not* going to be a resolvable location.  If the OGF is going to use URLs for 
identifying security claims or XML namespaces, then some kind of useful documentation regarding these things should 
exist at the given URL.  Otherwise I would strongly urge adopting a URN such as urn:ogf.org:security:2006:1:bsp or urn:
ogf.org:ogsa:2007:11:bsp.

Andreas Savva

05/20/2008 12:29 AM

post6034

Re: Use of URLs vs URIs

> This is a general comment: It is my experience that it is confusing and 
> misleading to many users to use URLs instead of URNs when a URI is called for 
> that is *not* going to be a resolvable location.  If the OGF is going to use 
> URLs for identifying security claims or XML namespaces, then some kind of 
> useful documentation regarding these things should exist at the given URL.  
> Otherwise I would strongly urge adopting a URN such as urn:ogf.org:security:
> 2006:1:bsp or urn:ogf.org:ogsa:2007:11:bsp.

These are stated to be URIs not URLs so do not have to be resolvable. The convention used here follows GFD.84.

But I agree that using URNs would probably be clearer and should be considered when an update to  GFD.84 is carried out.


Thanks.

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