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A comment on Ask HN: Why are URNs not more popular?.

Re:Ask HN: Why are URNs not more popular? by rerdavies on Saturday January 07, 2023 @12:59AM (#34285644)
Asking because I don't know, and I can't believe nobody anticipated it. (Blames "Semantic Web").

Is there not a version of URN that allows you to use a registered domain name or IP address as a scope or scheme?

Something in the spirit of:

   urn://mycompany.com/Whatever/I/Want

   urn:mycompany.com://192.168.0.1/Whatever/I/Want
Semantically, a "uniform" private resource identifier that's "uniformly" parsable while avoiding the unpleasantness of IANA registrations.

I've scraped with IANA protocol registrations before. It wasn't fun at all. I can't imagine doing it for schema or urn schema registration.

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Re:Ask HN: Why are URNs not more popular? by jdougan on Saturday January 07, 2023 @01:48AM (#34285839)
Yes, there is, the FeDerated Content (FDC) urn type. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4198.html

    urn:fdc:domain-i-controlled-at-time.com:202212:resource:fred
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