[urn] Re: Incorporating other identifiers into URIs

All,

On Montag, 23. März 2026 06:28, Martin J. Dürst [mailto:[email protected]] wrote:

>So I think that if we should get e.g. a request for a :pub: URN namespace,
> we should reject it pointing to the fact that things such as ISBN already
> have their namespaces.

I agree. Also looking at Tom's concerns about the urn:glue namespace, to me this seems to indicate, that any "super-namespace" that is built to incorporate a range of identifiers with different origins, maintainers and governance structures would take us down a potentially unmanageble rabbit hole. Thus we should reject _all_ such requests.

One possible exception to that would be namespaces like urn:nbn where the national namespace authorities explicitly _delegate_ sub-namespace governance to third parties. But that's a different model.

Best,

Lars 

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