31 Aug 2004
CS 5244: Identifiers
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Uniform Resource Names (URN)
¡Globally unique, persistent, and accessible over the network
lPersistence: That is, the URN will be globally unique forever.
lScalability: URNs can be assigned to any resource
lLegacy / Extensible:
Backward and forward compatible
¡Some Examples:
¡
urn:hdl:cnri.dlib/august95
urn:lifn:some.domain:anything-goes-here
urn:path:/A/B/C/doc.html
urn:inet:library.bigstate.edu:aj17-mcc
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Scheme
Parameters