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Re:Ask HN: Why are URNs not more popular? by dragonwriter on Saturday January 07, 2023 @12:59AM (#34285643)
At least one of your items, telephone numbers have their own URI scheme [0] (in the original model, URNs were non-locators while URLs were locators; telephone numbers are arguably locators, but in any case URLs being replaced with URIs, which need not be locators, and URNs becoming a URI scheme mean that there is really very little good rule as to when a non-locator identifier should be a URN namespace vs. its own scheme.)

Also, the same rationale that led to the closure of the registry foe the somewhat similar info: scheme registry [1] likely contribute to limited registration for URN NIDs.

[0] tel: (RFC 3966) https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3966.txt

[1] https://oclc-research.github.io/infoURI-Frozen/

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