RE: [xri] Subject and Alias

["Scott Cantor" <cantor.2@osu.edu>]

Nat Sakimura wrote on 2009-06-08:
> Just thought that there might be a use case to have uuid, isbn, or
something
> as Alias etc. By relative, I meant without protocol or authority section.
> Uuid, isbn, etc. would fall into this category.

UUIDs have a URN namespace defined, as do OIDs and ISBN.

http://www.iana.org/assignments/urn-namespaces/

> (Of course, we can define purl.org etc. uri for those, but it may have
>   trust section implications that I have not fully explored.)

Please don't.

-- Scott