Re: [codelist] Fwd: Re: Impact of changing a specification from URI to IRI and XRI

["Anthony B. Coates (Miley Watts)" <abcoates@mileywatts.com>]

I have not had a chance to look into the XRI question since the last  
telecon (I've been focussing on the UML model).  My open questions are:

If we allow XRIs for identifying code lists, code list versions,  
column/keys, column/key versions, are their any special semantics that the  
XRI spec would apply to the construction of these?
If so, what would that be, and what would be need to put in the spec?
Would the XRI semantics change the nature of the way URIs currently work  
as identifiers in the spec?

Has anyone had a chance to look at this?  Thanks,

Cheers, Tony.

On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:52:28 -0000, G. Ken Holman  
<gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com> wrote:

> Fellow CLRTC members,
>
> I've asked someone I highly respect regarding markup and the Internet  
> about any impact we have of changing our use of URI strings.
>
> He can only comment on the use of IRI strings and from what I see there  
> is no impact for us to simply say a string is an IRI wherever we say it  
> is a URI.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XRI states there is some disagreement  
> regarding the problems being addressed by XRI strings.  Perhaps we  
> should wait to say anything about XRI until it is more widely accepted.
>
> . . . . . . . . . . Ken

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