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To: "Chris Weider" <clw@merit.edu>
Subject: Re: Versioning?
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Sep 93 14:19:33 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 93 18:40:41 -0400
From: Simon E Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
"Chris Weider" <clw@merit.edu> writes:
>
>The only consensus was that version number would not appear explicitly
>as a semantic component of the URN. Other than that it is up to the naming
>authority to decide when to assign a new URN. However, some of the inconvenience
That wasn't consensus - that was you hitting me over the head with a large
stick! I'm still convinced that versioning is part of the name of an object;
I also became convinced that I wasn't convince everybody no matter how
convincing I felt my conviction to be. It's a few dead clowns short of a
showstopper, but I can live without versions if there is an absolutely
overwhelming consensus against them.
The reason why I rate the lack of versioning slightly below show-stopper level
is that you can create another UR.* containing just the URN and the Version,
and never ever deal with naked URNs. However, I can foresee this causing all
sorts of interoperability problems and confusion. Remember what happens when
you start creating too many optional profiles...
Simon