[urn] Re: Incorporating other identifiers into URIs

On 3/24/26 5:14 AM, Lars G. Svensson wrote:
> 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.

I am leaning in that direction, too, but I haven't yet thought it 
through in detail, so I will post to the list again before long.

> 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.

Yes.

Peter


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