RE: URN's as ID's

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

David

Before you can become part of AOL you have to register. Then you're given a
username, e.g. "imhappy". AOL could then (if it wanted to) create a URN for
each member along the lines of ...

   urn:aol.com:member:imhappy

David

-----Original Message-----
From: David RR Webber [mailto:Gnosis_@compuserve.com]
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 12:59 PM
To: David Burdett
Cc: Marty Sachs; ebxml transport
Subject: RE: URN's as ID's


Message text written by David Burdett
> 
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
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OK - that's good  - but how does this also solve the AOL example with
dynamic URN's?

Can we persuade AOL to identify small business partners on the fly?
(This has been a MAJOR goal of mine for 3 years but be warned
AOL are as deaf as a post on this - up to (and probably especially!)
VP level!!!)

Their view is that they do not have any small business users!

What a joke huh?  Just shows you that to be a multi-billion $ 
company does not mean you have to be smart!!

DW.