I was just taking a look at:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2141.txt

and I was wondering why freenet's "URLs" such as CHK, SSK, KSK, etc.
were not done as URN's?

Particularly, it seems that CHK's are the same as something more
general: urn:sha1:<sha1 hash>.  It seems a shame not to take advantage
of these ideas.

Viewed in this light, freenet is a system for locating and publishing
certain urn types (maybe urn:sha1: urn:freenet:<freenet key here>).

Freenet "URLs" are not URLs at all.  They do tell you the location of
data, only a standard way to refer to it.

One answer to this question might surely be: "We don't care about
buzzword compliance" so it doesn't matter what you call the freenet
urls.  On the other hand, interoperability is cool.  If you standardized
on URN's then one can imagine bridging different content systems (like
freenet, gnutella, etc... with the use of urn's) quite easily.

Any thoughts on this?

Oscar Boykin.
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