Re:Ask HN: Why are URNs not more popular?
by dagss on Saturday January 07, 2023 @10:51AM
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Agreed and in fact this is what is in our code even before I made the post. My main problem is that we have to invent this idSource string for all registries we support.
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Re:Ask HN: Why are URNs not more popular?
by Kwpolska on Saturday January 07, 2023 @12:08PM
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What does “support” entail? Whether “we print its friendly name on the invoice before its value” or “we validate it, fetch the business data from the national registries and auto-fill the rest of the form”, you still need some special handling and registration. In that case, you don’t save much by using an existing scheme, and you there is a bigger risk of someone providing a schema you don’t support.