On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Jeff Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> when creating a namespace, is the preferred format "urn:xxx:yyy..." or is > it "http://mycompany.com/whatever";? Just wondering what would be best to > use for my own intermal, experimental namespaces. > > Jeff > > Well, I believe that you have to be a namespace registrar in order to use urn: namespaces. Generally people use http://their-domain/whatever because a) it's nearly guaranteed to be unique and b) it denotes ownership for the namespace. The XSF is a namespace registrar now, but they weren't originally. Also, the early spec writers didn't understand namespace authority until jabber:client, jabber:server, and jabber:iq had been established. This has all been grandfathered into the final spec, but if there were an XMPP 2.0, I would expect that to be cleaned up.
