RE: URN's as ID's

[David Burdett <david.burdett@commerceone.com>]

David

Take a look at the URN spec (RFC 2611). Essentially the URN allows to
specify and register your own structure for a name. This means that a
company could specify a structure that allows a name at lower than the
company level. For example:

	"urn:example.com:division:AB123"

David

-----Original Message-----
From: David RR Webber [mailto:Gnosis_@compuserve.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 1:19 PM
To: David Burdett; ebxml transport; Marty Sachs
Subject: URN's as ID's


Dave,

You suggested IETF is using URN's - at their level of
sever-server granularity that's ok.

Deleted your message then realized that won;t work 
for us though!

If I'm a division within a company - I have my whole own
accounting process - but our URN is the companies main
site....

And similar situations.  If I'm a AOL user - your system sees
one of AOL's proxy URN's - nothing to do with who I really am.

We need to have assigned ID's.

DW.