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

[Ewan Birney]

On Thu, 31 May 2001, Martin Senger wrote:

> [ ...just extracting one topic from the original message... ]
> 
> > I have to revisit this. We might want to bring this up at BOSC as Andrew
> > Dalke wants to push for a URI style syntax for identifiers.
> >
>    Here is my summary:

Cool.

Andrew - more grist to your mill - what do you think of URIs vs
NamingService stuff? I am sure Martin or Juha can point you to a Naming
Service doc thing...



> 
>    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)
> 
>    What URI has not and NS has:
>       - versioning of each name part
> 
>    Both have a hierarchical structure, therefore both are extensible for
> other layers.
> 
>    Is there anything else what make them different?
>    [ When we know differences we can start to compare them.]
> 
>    Martin
> 
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