Thanks for that explanation. My first guess that it was an analogy to the Library of Babel and I was able to convince myself that made sense.
Re:Ask HN: Why are URNs not more popular?
by cratermoon on Saturday January 07, 2023 @11:31AM
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> I want to refer to a registration in a registry.
But that's not the question you posed in the original post. You asked about URNs, and the URN registry imposes a taxonomy. You're wanting a registry of identifiers classified by country and type. That's a taxonomy.
Why depend on someone else's registry? Make your own, don't worry about taxonomy, and use it.
I want to refer to a registration in a registry. Objects can of course be regidtered many places for many reasons but that is not my concern here.
As long as I can serialize the tuple (registry-somone-made, id-in-that-registry) in a standard and readable way that would be a huge step forward