Re: A simpler proposal: PaceAtomIDAsString

[Dare Obasanjo <kpako@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> At 3:14 PM -0700 8/3/04, Dare Obasanjo wrote:
> >Where are the guidelines that make it so that
> people
> >can create globally unique identifiers using
> arbitrary
> >strings?
> 
> Um, in the same place as the guidelines that make it
> so that people 
> can create globally unique identifiers using URIs?
> 
> That is, they are the same.

I still don't get it. For URI schemes the consensus
seemed to be to pick some combination of (scheme +
domain + date + extra gunk) for individual schemes to
maintain uniqueness. Are you claiming that using some
similar syntax will be adopted for saying that any
arbitrary string can be an atom:id, if so where in the
Pace is this highlighted? 

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