On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 10:41 -0400, Alan Ruttenberg wrote: > something, but as far as I can see, the only authority related to > namespaces in URLs is the DNS, and while there is the SRV field which > might be used to direct someone to information about the namespace, I > don't know whether anyone does.
I believe this SRV-redirection behaviour is part of the LSID spec, and we use it for all of the BioMOBY LSIDs... M -- -- Mark Wilkinson Asst. Professor, Dept. of Medical Genetics University of British Columbia PI in Bioinformatics, iCAPTURE Centre St. Paul's Hospital, Rm. 166, 1081 Burrard St. Vancouver, BC, V6Z 1Y6 tel: 604 682 2344 x62129 fax: 604 806 9274 "For most of this century we have viewed communications as a conduit, a pipe between physical locations on the planet. What's happened now is that the conduit has become so big and interesting that communication has become more than a conduit, it has become a destination in its own right..." Paul Saffo - Director, Institute for the Future