Re: W3C URN scheme 'root' doesn't exist?

On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 4:29 PM, David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote:

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> On May 9, 2014, at 12:50 , Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > On 9 May 2014 21:29, David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote:
> > It strikes me that the TAG might have an opinion, and indeed Ian
> suggested such...
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> > Im curious, when would the w3c want to use a URN root, instead of an
> HTTP URL from the root
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> > http://www.w3.org/
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> > Maybe it's just never come up?
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> Maybe it hasn’t.


It did come up. The TAG never developed an opinion, even though it tried to.

http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/group/track/issues/50

But W3C was certainly aware of URNs when it started using http: URLs in a
name-like way in the late 1990s, e.g. for XML namespace names and for RDF
ontology terms. That had to have been a deliberate decision, informed
perhaps by http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/NameMyth.html .