Identifiers (was: [Biocorba-l] BSANE and bioCORBA)

[Martin Senger]

> 
> I would like to see mor information about NamingService.
>
   Please look into yesterday mails in this list from me and Scott. I
think there were answers to your questions. Generally, I think we are not
talking here about using the CORBA NamingService but only about re-using
its syntax for specifying names.

> 
> Martin:
> >>    What URI has and NamingService syntax does not have:
> >>       - a protocol (together with a port number)
> >>       - it allows non-escaped dots (ie. as used in the hostnames)
> 
> On the first, yes and no.
>
   What I said was that URI has a special syntax for protocol, and NS has
a special syntax for versioning. I did not say that you cannot put a
protocol information in NS, or versioning into URI.
   The problem now stands "waht we want to put into identifiers". If we
have solved this, we may go on and talk about "how to store it" (using URI
or NS). My understanding now is that the candidates for identifier parts
are now (as extracted from the yesterady mails):

   - set of name components
   - each of the components having a name and a version
   - a "content type" that says:
     - what object is identified by this identifier (i.e. sequence_aa)
     - in which format the object contents is stored (ie. sequence in
       fasta format)

   I am not saying that we have agreed on this summary.
   What else, or what less, do you want to have in the identifier?

   Martin

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