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

[Martin Senger]

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> 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:

   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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